Large numbers of guanaco skins are sent to Europe, where they are used for carriage robes, for lining coats and cloaks, for trimming, and for other purposes to which fine fur is adapted.
The guanaco is supposed to be a cross of the vicuña and the llama, and is next in value and beauty to the vicuña.
In another canoe stood a repulsive-looking man, who had taken off his guanaco robe, and stood naked, flapping it at us, and yelling like a lunatic.
For a plug of “Navy” they would exchange a guanaco blanket that could not be bought in New York for seventy-five dollars, as the guanaco is one of the rarest and finest of skins.
It is said that men frequently die of blood-poisoning from this cause, and a native will keep clear of the nose of a vicious guanaco as a colored person will avoid the heels of an Irish mule.
Occasionally in the stomach of a guanaco is found what is called a “bezoar” stone, a magical sort of affair, which will cure any kind of disease if carried in the pocket.
The chief articles of export in this line are ostrich feathers and guanaco (pronounced wanacko) skins.
The guanaco is supposed to be the original type, is the largest of the four, and has the greatest range from Peru to Tierra del Fuego.
The slaughter of the guanaco and vicuna is rapidly diminishing their number.
The llama and alpaca were domesticated long before the discovery of America, but the guanaco and vicuna are found in a wild state only.
The guanaco is hunted for its skin, which, when dressed, makes an attractive rug or robe.
The guanaco lives in herds of five or seven individuals, and these are very shy, fleeing to the most inaccessible cliffs when any one approaches them.
The guanaco and llama have also been known to form a cross; but there is no instance of a cross between the two wild varieties,—the guanaco and vicuña.
They are a hunting tribe, the guanaco being the chief object of their pursuit and source of subsistence.
They are now in a region where roams the guanaco [Note 1]; and the Tekeneekas are hunters as well as fishermen.
Enough, also, of the guanaco meal to last them for a much longer voyage than they hope to have the necessity of making.
We sat beside the fire of roots on our guanaco skins for the night was not warm.
Both were warmly clad, and both wore guanaco mantles, the very garments we had purchased at Sandy Point.
Our dish to-night was to be a Patagonian stew, the meat consisting of the tit-bits of the guanaco and ostrich, with a kind of tuberous root dug up by the Indians, and which is indeed a palatable adjunct to diet on the Pampas.
For the first time in my life, we tasted guanaco and ostrich meat, and horseflesh; and the commander of the ship positively apologised because he had not been able to procure a fry of agouti and a curry of armadillo.
In less than an hour, we were all curled up in our toldo or kau, wrapped in our good guanaco robes, and fast asleep.
The body was rolled in a guanacorobe and laid to rest, the clods were heaped in, and snow put over these.
The bridle is also of guanaco skin, and the bit of wood and thong.
Then they squatted on a guanaco skin, Jeeka holding his wife's hand in his lap, and both looking so pleased and happy.
They were invariably asked in, and just as invariably did poor Nadi bring with her some sewing to do, generally in the shape of a few pieces of guanaco skin, which she was sewing together to make a roba or mantle for her husband or herself.
Let us tether the guanaco lamb to the bank, and stand by with our guns.
Our tent was not of guanaco skins, like that of the Indians who accompanied us on this expedition.
Our seats were our huge, gown-like guanaco mantles, which by and by would serve us for blankets, when we lay down to sleep on our couches of withered grass.
On the fifth day Jill and I went up stream some little distance through the burnt forest, and Ossian, the dog, found near the bank a guanaco half-roasted.
I awake to find myself lying on the log-house floor on a couch of guanaco skins.
Castizo says about all a man wants is a guanaco robe and a gun, with a horse or two, and there you are.
Night had quite fallen before we left the lake side, for we had to go right back to the places from which our horses had stampeded for our guanaco mantles.
I mean this: the guanacois only good for eating when it is killed in a state of rest.
We crowed over them, however, for they had not killed either a guanaco or a puma.
For a long time I could not go to sleep: at last I did, and it seemed but a moment afterwards that Terry aroused me to go with Tom and the Indian guide to bring the guanaco and the skin of the puma.
By the time we got up the guanaco was dead, and Old Surley was standing over him, looking wonderfully proud of his victory.
We then raised a mark near our guanaco as we had done before.
He had singled a guanaco out of the herd, and marks of blood on the grass showed that it had been wounded.
With such like exclamations we darted from behind our cover, and ran as fast as our legs could carry us up to the guanaco I had hit; while Surley, hounded on by us, went off in hot chase after the animal Jerry had wounded.
At all events, he dogfully played his part at the feast, and ate up with evident relish all the scraps of guanaco flesh which we gave him.
We found the first guanaco untouched, so we took his skin and some of the flesh.
He was so intent on the prospect of a feast off the dead guanaco that he did not see us.
In the middle of the capas we carefully placed our greatest treasure--twelve wax matches in a little tortoise-shell box, which we rendered impervious to damp by securely wrapping it in pieces of guanaco hide.
Don Pedro barters with the Indians for guanaco capas and ostrich feathers.
A covering made of guanaco skins is drawn over a rough framework of wood, consisting of a double row of stakes and cross-beams, lashed together with thongs of guanaco hide.
Still he stumbled on, occasionally shying wildly at the glimmering whiteness of some heap of bleached guanaco bones, or startled at the fanciful shapes assumed by the bushes in the deepening shadows of night.
A roast goose now and then would have made a welcome improvement on our eternal diet of lean guanaco and ostrich.
The guanaco has been well described by Captain Musters as having the head of a camel, the body of a deer, the wool of a sheep, and the neigh of a horse.
The capa, or mantle of guanaco furs, already described, completes their attire.
The dowry of the daughter consisted in four new guanaco mantles.
We soon came up to them, and Guillaume, dismounting, despatched the guanaco with his long hunting-knife.
My host was more than satisfied with his day's work, and promised me a guanaco hunt for the morrow.
The guanaco is, perhaps, the least prized of the four, as its fleece is of indifferent quality, and its flesh is not esteemed.
Such is the difference in the mode of life of two species of animals almost cogenerie, and I am not surprised to hear you state that a somewhat like difference exists between the guanaco and vicuna.
Up to a very late period the guanaco was believed to be the llama in its wild state, and by some the llama run wild.
Before enshrouding himself in his guanaco mantle he drew on a huge waterproof canvas sack and fastened it tightly round his chest.
She had set her heart upon guanaco robes or ponchos for each of us; and though they cost a deal of money, and were, according to Moncrieff, a quite unnecessary expense, she bought them all the same.
Old Jenny is in an easy-chair and buried to the nose in her guanaco robe.
Moncrieff sticks to the Highland plaid, but the sight of a guanaco poncho to old Jenny does, I verily believe, make her the happiest old lady in all the Silver Land.
In the evening, just as we had returned from a most successful guanaco hunt, we found Donaldson's uncanny creature coming along the path.
Once, I remember, Archie had leapt from his horse and was making his way through a patch of bush on the plains, in pursuit of a young guanaco which he had wounded.
He has done more riding to-day than any of us, and made many a long détour in search of that guanaco which he has hitherto failed to find.
Bombazo calls it bitterly cold, and my aunt has distributed guanaco ponchos to us, and has adorned herself with her own.
So, wrapped in our guanaco robes--the benefit of which we felt now--my brothers and I slept sweetly and deeply till the sun once more rose in the east.
A kind of brotherly rivalry takes possession of me, and I cannot help wishing that the first guanaco would fall to my rifle.
Our beds were the hard ground, with a rug and guanaco robe, our saddles turned upside down making as good a pillow as any one could wish.
During this day's barter we procured guanaco meat, sufficient for two days' supply of all hands, for a few pounds of tobacco.
As the meat appeared fresh, it is probable that, on seeing us, the women were despatched to place the toldos, while the men set out to provide guanaco meat, for they knew our partiality for this excellent food.
Had we been so fortunate as to meet them here, we might have procured, perhaps, a regular supply of guanaco meat.
Where they got the guanaco skins was a question not easy to answer.
The return of the Beagle cheered our ship's company, and on the 30th the Adelaide came back, with a large quantity of guanaco meat, which had been procured from the Patagonian Indians at Peckett's Harbour.
A living female guanaco was brought home in the Adventure, and placed in the garden of the Zoological Society.
As more time could not be spared we went on board, reminding the natives, on leaving them, of their promise to bring us some guanaco meat.
Some wigwams and the traces of guanacoes' hoofs were seen, but the land is high, and being thickly wooded shut us out {452} from the best guanaco country.
Several of our people were employed in gathering cranberries, and preserving them for future use; they are anti-scorbutic, as well as the wild celery, much of which has been used with our guanaco soup.
They live as nomadic shepherds in tents of guanaco skins, and wear garments of tanned skin, after the manner of the Gauchos; they have no pottery, subsist almost exclusively on meat, etc.
Excellent horsemen, they hunt the guanaco with bolas, exactly like the Patagonians and the Gauchos.
Their only garment consists of a mantle made of guanaco skin, with the wool outside: this they wear just thrown over their shoulders, leaving their persons as often exposed as covered.
In the landscape of Patagonia, the guanaco replaces the gazelle, and the agouti the hare.
It belongs to the same division of the Pachydermata with the rhinoceros, tapir, and palaeotherium; but in the structure of the bones of its long neck it shows a clear relation to the camel, or rather to the guanaco and llama.
Can we believe that the Capybara has taken the food of the Toxodon, the Guanaco of the Macrauchenia, the existing small Edentata of their numerous gigantic prototypes?
The guanaco is nearly the only warm-blooded quadruped, and it is found in quite inconsiderable numbers compared with the multitude of flies.
This must be an old name, for it is very many years since a guanaco drank its waters.
On the east coast the natives, as we have seen, have guanaco cloaks, and on the west they possess seal-skins.
The guanaco is also in his proper district, herds of fifty or a hundred were common; and, as I have stated, we saw one which must have contained at least five hundred.
He also noticed that when a guanaco was wounded by a bullet it immediately headed for the river.
For beds they have cushions made of coarse blankets stuffed with guanaco wool, and they know the comfort of pillows, which are made of soft skins stuffed with guanaco hair.
To this the women add a gown in these days, and the inevitable robe of guanaco skins, while the men and women both wear the robe and boots made of the skin of a colt's hind legs.
With this uppermost in mind, I made haste on reaching Santa Cruz to ask the gauchos and other citizens for horses and a guide to the nearest guanaco cemetery, but they did not understand me.
In form and habits the guanaco is a very interesting beast.
But, like the antelope, the guanaco is full of curiosity.
It creeps up slowly on the guanaco herds, picks out a fat one, and then with quivering fur and flaming eyes it leaps at its victim.
It has 5000 tons of wheat to carry from the colony every year, besides some small packages of ostrich feathers, guanaco skins, and products of Indian workmanship.
Now the Yahgan, as said, found the guanaco in his own proper country as well as when he went visiting the Onas on the borderland, and he must have fully appreciated all that the Onas could do with their bolas and bows.
They began to learn how to hunt the guanaco and the ostrich that roamed over the desert.
Their chief dependence for food is the guanaco that abounds in Tierra del Fuego and a prairie squirrel.
As the boys grow up, they soon learn to hunt; and then they go out with their fathers to hunt the guanaco and the ostrich.
The guanaco is nearly as large as a cow, and has a head like a camel.
Beside it stood a loose horse with the carcass of a guanacoflung over it, and a Gaucho lad who was the hunter's only attendant.
There's nothing like fresh mountain air," exclaimed Lawrence, with a glow of enthusiasm, after the first attack on the guanaco steaks had subsided.
In the landscape of Patagonia the guanaco replaces the gazelle, and the agouti the hare.
Guanaco are found throughout the southern half of South America, from Peru in the north to Cape Horn in the south, but occur in greatest abundance in Patagonia.
The chief enemies of the guanaco are the Patagonian Indians and the puma, as it forms the principal food of both.
Guanaco are readily domesticated, and in this state become very bold and will attack man, striking him from behind with both knees.
Guanaco also have favourite localities in which to die, as appears from the great heaps of their bones found in particular spots.
The guanaco is the only large wild quadruped of these regions.
The Onas who used to come down to Punta Arenas to sell guanaco skins and obtain ardent spirits, are now seldom seen.
They are manly fellows of great strength and courage, and go about clothed only with a guanaco skin.
They did not cultivate the soil, they had no milk-giving animals, and indeed hardly any animals to feed upon except the guanaco and the small South American ostrich.
There the grass is often a bright, fresh green, for it is plentifully manured, and consequently the guanacohelps to encourage the good grasses to occupy a half-desert.
Now imagine a guanaco in South America, or even a rat or mouse, which is perishing of thirst in the arid desert where such things are found.
The guanaco does not travel hundreds of miles in order to die in one particular spot as soon as it feels ill, but it does resort especially to certain spots.
She thinks Turner might approve of Suarez in his black and white stripes, but the Guanaco crater reminds her of Gustave Doré, who always exaggerated his tone values.
A fresh series of grunts and clicks elicited the fact that the smoke-column seen the previous day on Guanaco Hill had not been created by the tribe.
Have you heard this morning's news--how Suarez found out from the Indians that eleven of our crew are hiding in a cave on Guanaco Hill?
You heard what he said to de Poincilit before he went to the Guanaco cañon?
Once we have the canoes in mid channel, we can set most of them adrift, and bring Captain Courtenay and the others back to the ship in four or five which we will tow to Guanaco Hill.
He saw smoke rising from the funnel of the ship; a line of flags dancing from the foremast told him that Boyle had discovered them as soon as they were clear of the deep shadow of Guanaco Hill.
It was difficult to analyze her motives, but she had undoubtedly freed the eleven sailors, and led them over the rocks at low water to the haunted cave on Guanaco Hill.
Though they strained their eyes and spoke with bated breath, never a sight of boat or canoes was obtainable for hours after the latter were swallowed up by the trees which shrouded the creek at the foot of Guanaco Hill.
His only garments were a species of waistcoat and rough trousers of untanned guanaco hide.
Then, both men looked at the summit of Guanaco Hill.
Nevertheless, he warned them that he knew nothing of the surroundings of Guanaco Hill.
Gray, she noticed, was not looking towards Guanaco Hill, but swept all parts of the coastline constantly with his binoculars.
In any event, she intended to go next to the hidden cleft at the foot of Guanaco Hill, trusting to the dog's sagacity to reveal the retreat where she believed that her lover and many of his men were hidden.
This map also reappeared in the 1584 edition, and may be compared with those of the Wytfliet series.
The flesh of the guanaco is excellent, something resembling mutton; the young guanaco being more like very tender veal.
The ostriches and herds of guanaco run from the advancing party, but are checked by the pointsmen, and when the circle is well closed in are attacked with the bolas, two men frequently chasing the same animal from different sides.
I took a stroll, rifle in hand, whilst the men were getting firewood; and plenty of guanaco were visible, but I only succeeded in wounding one, which escaped on three legs.
But the good guanaco mantle kept out the wind, and our motley party pushed briskly on in good order.
The most laborious part of young guanaco hunting consists in taking off the skin, which, after the necessary incisions have been made with a knife, has to be taken off by hand, the thumb being used to separate the hide from the body.
The guanaco abounds over a vast range of country, extending from Peru all down the regions east of the range of the Cordillera of the Andes, over the vast plains from Mendoza to the Straits of Magellan, and even to Tierra del Fuego.
The next day was got through by having a thorough 'wash' of my clothes, and cultivating a closer acquaintance with the Chilian Arica, from whom I obtained a dog in exchange for an old guanaco mantle.
On the eastern side rose a range of hills, barren and desolate, with here and there a singleguanaco in solitary majesty, cropping the stunted grass.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guanaco" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animal; antelope; armadillo; bat; elephant; hare; horse; kangaroo; mammal; opossum; pig; rat
