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 The llama varies in colour, but is generally of a sort of white. His neck and legs are long. Fond of company, when his pride is not touched he is easily led, and it was no uncommon thing for the Spaniards, when they first entered the country, to meet whole



SPANIARDS MEETING A CARAVAN OF LLAMAS

caravans of llamas laden with silver ingots from the mines of Potosi, travelling under the charge of a single native. Indeed, it has been reckoned that fully 300,000 llamas were employed in this service.

But though the wool of the llama was sometimes used for rough kinds of cloth, it was not nearly so highly