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Updated: May 17, 2025
I soon had to exercise my new office of interpreter, for the man began shouting again on seeing Mr Jellaby and the coxswain near him. "Ah del buque!" he screamed out, holding up, as if to signal with it, one of his emaciated hands, the bony fingers of which looked like those of a skeleton. "Como se llama el buque?" "He says `ship ahoy! sir," I explained to the doctor. "`What ship is that?"
The Franciscan was told that the writing “contained hidden things which no stranger ought to know.” It was seen that the pages of the book were “covered with figures of men, animals, and isolated characters, deemed hieroglyphical, and arranged in lines with order and symmetry.” The Panoes said these books “were transmitted to them by their ancestors, and had relation to wanderings and ancient wars.” There is similar writing on a prepared llama skin found among other antiquities on a peninsula in Lake Titicaca, which is now in the museum at La Paz, Bolivia.
Breakfast made them all feel better, and they set off on the final stage of their journey. "If all goes well we'll be at the tunnel entrance and camp to-night," said the contractor. "This second half of the trip is the roughest." There was no need of saying that, for it was perfectly evident. The trail was a most precarious one, and only a mule or llama could have traveled it.
It is on the above-mentioned bleak table-land that the llama, with its kindred the alpaca, vicuna, and huanucu are found. The historian of the conquest calls them the sheep of Peru, but the llama is more allied in its characteristics to the camel of the desert.
The buffalo was too big, too fierce, and too stupid to be domesticated. In all the length and breadth of the two Americas there was no animal to take the place of the useful horse, donkey, or ox. The llama was too small to do anything but carry light loads, and it could live only in a most limited area among the cold Andean highlands.
Animals, also, were to be found there, among which the llama, with its golden fleece, was most conspicuous, executed in the same style, and with a degree of skill, which, in this instance, probably, did not surpass the excellence of the material.21
The flesh of the llama is eaten; and as many as 4,000,000 were, in days gone by, annually killed for food. The alpaca is smaller than the llama, and somewhat resembles the sheep. It has a long, soft, fine fleece of a silky lustre. In the domestic breeds the wool falls in large flakes reaching down to the knees. This wool was employed by the ancient Peruvians for weaving a kind of cloth.
The Llama Temple is considered to be one of the most important places to visit; it is in the eastern quarter of the Tartar City. The rule has been that just as soon as an emperor ascends the throne, the palace that he had previously occupied shall be changed into a temple.
I believe that a few miles higher up we shall get out of this atmosphere altogether. Still, the ponchos will be very useful, for it will be really cold up in the mountains. They serve for cloaks in the daytime and blankets at night. The best are made of the wool of the guanacos, a sort of llama.
Now and then he condescended to arbitrate between disputants or to kick a little brute of a bully, but he felt that, in doing so, he was derogating from his high dignity. It was his joy to feel himself a dark, majestic power overshadowing the street, a kind of Grand Llama hidden in mystery.
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