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Updated: May 11, 2025
The sole covering of both sexes is a mantle made of huanacu skins worn with the hairy side in which can be thrown off in a moment. Their habitations are huts of skin, supported on poles sloping to the ground, towards the direction from whence blows the strong wind or snow from Cape Horn. They sleep, however, in fine weather, like other tribes further to the north, on the uncovered ground.
Further on, to the south, the Pampas, over which the yet savage and untamed Patagonians roam, and hunt the huanacu and ostrich, is generally higher and drier.
A peculiar shrill cry reached our ears as we approached, and the whole herd turned, advancing a few paces, and then suddenly wheeling round, off they went at a rapid rate. Don Jose told us that they are hunted with the bolas, as cattle are in the plains. There is another animal, the huanacu, which is larger than the llama, but resembles it greatly.
Towards its southern boundaries the huanacu and the deer Cervus campestris in large herds range at large, while the pools and marshes are inhabited by enormous flocks of wild fowl of all descriptions.
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