The Elh, 
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Spanish language a hoof or paw (. Burney's Travels , p. 34, 
ed. 1802). Xaco is a name given to the llama by another 
traveller. 
The first llama brought to Europe was landed at 
Middleburgh, in 1553, and sent as a present to the 
German Emperor. A rude figure of this animal, en¬ 
graved at Nuremberg, was copied by Gesner, the great 
naturalist of the time, in his work on quadrupeds 
(Bennett, Menagerie of the Zoological Society, 1830). 
Of the known varieties of deer the largest was the 
Elk. This animal is a native of Northern Elk or 
Europe and Asia. It also inhabits North Moose. 
America, where it is usually called the Moose, from the 
Indian word musu. It is described in an account of 
the discovery and colonization of New England :— 
“ There is also a certaine beast, that the natives call a mosse, hee 
is as big bodies as an oxe, headed like a fallow deere, with a broad 
palme, which hee mues every yeare, as dothe the deere, and neck like 
a red deere, with a short mane running down along the ranes of his 
back, his haire long like an elke, but esteemed to be better then 
that for saddlers use, he hath likewise a great- bunch hanging downe 
under his throat, and is of the colour of our blacker sort of fallow 
deere, his legs are long, and his feet as big as the feet of our oxen, his 
taile is longer then the single of a deere. His fleshe is excellent 
food, which the natives use to jerkin and keepe all the yeere to serve 
their turne, and so proves very serviceable for their use.” ( Purchas , 
vol. iv. p. 1829.) 
Another traveller asserts that “ the elk, that so much 
desired and salutiferous beast is frequently to be met with 
in those parts, and which for the virtue of one of his feet 
has obtained the name of ncoeo, signifying the excellent 
beast” ('Churchills Voyages , vol. i. p. 537). Drayton, in 
his poem, Noah's Flood, represents this animal as taking 
his place in the procession towards the ark s— 
tl The great unwieldly elk, whose skin is of much proof, 
Throngs with the rest t’ attain this wooden roof.” 
