They also made crude pottery, firing it with straw and llama dung.

He reported that there was a path leading out of the canyon up to the llama pastures on the lower slopes of the mountains.

After an hour of not very hard climbing over a fairly good llama trail, the Tejadas stopped at the edge of the pastures and shouted to us to come back.

The alpaca, like its cousin, the llama, was probably domesticated by the early Peruvians from the wild guanaco, largest of the camels of the New World.

The llama has so coarse a hair that it is seldom woven into cloth for wearing apparel, although heavy blankets made from it are in use by the natives.

Bred to be a beast of burden, the llama is accustomed to the presence of strangers and is not any more timid of them than our horses and cows.

The llama, with far less hair on head, neck, and legs, is also amusing, but in a different way.

The llama dislikes to step over any obstacle, even a very low wall.

Once I attempted through a Cuzco acquaintance to secure the skin and skeleton of a fine llama for the Yale Museum.

He offered a good price and obtained from various llama owners promises to bring the hide and bones of one of their "camels" for shipment; but they never did.

On the other hand I have never seen a llama kick or bite at his owner.

Curiously enough, in the two years which I have spent in the Peruvian highlands I have never seen a llama so attack a single human being.

Father Duran says it is another name for Aztlan: "Estas cuevas son en Teoculacan, que por otro nombre se llama Aztlan."

[Footnote 1: Lizana says: "Se llama y nombra Kab-ul que quiere decir mano obradora," and all writers have followed him, although no such meaning can be made out of the name thus written.

It was under the carriage of one of the great old-fashioned cannon that stand in front of this museum that "Kim" first encountered the aged Llama, and Kipling's father is the wise man who kept the "Wonder-House" and gave the weary pilgrim the knowledge and encouragement that sustained him in his search for The Way.

I also happened to hear and read a great deal about the still more marked gregarious instincts of the llama; but the social animal into whose psychology I am conscious of having penetrated most thoroughly is the ox of the wild parts of western South Africa.

The one is, that men of highly original ideas, like the mythical Prometheus, arose from time to time in the dawn of human progress, and left their respective marks on the world by being the first to subjugate the camel, the llama, the reindeer, the horse, the ox, the sheep, the hog, the dog, or some other animal to the service of man.

The Peruvian herdsmen would have had great trouble to endure had the llama and alpaca not existed, for their cogeners, the huanacu and the vicuna, are hardly to be domesticated.

The fuel used is llama dung, costing 80 cents, or 2s.

" They entered a salon evidently furnished in great haste, with the happy-go-lucky and individual knack of those accustomed to traveling and improvising a dwelling place;divans with cheap and showy chintzes, skins of the American llama, glaring imitation-Oriental rugs, and on the walls, prints from the periodicals between gilt moldings.

But here stepped in naval preparedness with thick, short coats of llama wool.

porque siempre me llama en tales casos ...

Llama usted? DON PEDRO.

¡Y eso se llama ser feliz!

Eso llama usted claro? DON EDUARDO.