120 The Animal-Lore of Shahspeare's Time. 
in their generall language call them lama. For all things well con¬ 
sidered, it is a beast of the greatest profit and least charge of any that 
I know; from them they draw meate and clothing, as from the sheepe 
of Spaine. There are two kindes of these sheepe or lamas, the one they 
call pacos, or sheepe bearing wool, and the other are bare, and have 
little wooll, so are they better for burthen; they are bigger then 
great sheepe, and lesse then calves, they have a very long necke, like 
to a camel, whereof they have good need: for being high of stature, they 
have neede of a long necke, else should they be deformed. They are 
of divers colours, some all white, others all blacke, some grey, and 
some spotted.” ( Purchas , vol. iii. p. 968.) 
The same author also describes the Vicuna, a species of 
llama: 
“Amongst the most remarkable things at the Indies of Peru, be 
the vicugnes, and sheepe of the countrie, as they call them, which are 
tractable beasts and of great profit. The vicugnes are wilde, and the 
sheepe are tame. Some thinke that the vicugnes are those which Aris¬ 
totle, Plinie, and other authors call capreas, which are wilde goats, 
and in truth they have some resemblance, for the lightnesse they have 
in the woods and mountaines, but yet they are no goates, for the 
vicugnes have no homes, as those have whereof Aristotle makes mention. 
These vicugnes are greater then goates and lesser than calves. Their 
haire is of the colour of’dried roses, somewhat clearer. They have no 
homes like stags and goates. They feed upon the highest tops of the 
mountaines, which they call Pugnas. They are accustomed to sheere 
these beasts, and of their fleece to make coverings and rugge of great 
value, for that this wooll is like to white silke, which lasts long; and 
as the colour is naturall and not dyed, so is it perpetuall.” (Page 967.) 
The Guanaco, another species of llama, is described 
by Pigafetta in an account of the voyage of Fernando de 
Magalhanes, as having the head and ears like those of a 
mule, the body like a camel, legs like a stag, and a tail 
like that of a horse, which it resembled in the neighing. 
The natives of those parts of South America visited by 
Magellan wore a kind of shoe made of its skin, which 
caused their feet to appear like those of the animal. On 
this account Magellan, or as he is here called, Magalhanes, 
named the people Pata-gones: Pata signifying in the 
