Illustration] The Llamaof the Pampasses you never should confound (In spite of a deceptive similarity of sound) With the Lhama who is Lord of Turkestan.
The Llama [Illustration] The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, With an indolent expression and an undulating throat Like an unsuccessful literary man.
But stormy winds were met with, so the men put back, sailed to the point which they had started from, and determined to make two more vessels before they would again depart for the land of the llama and glittering gold.
They were slaughtered to gratify a mere epicurean whim, and many a llama was destroyed solely for the sake of the brains, - a dainty morsel, much coveted by the Spaniards.
Between meals, however, the Llama and the Lady-Bird lost no time.
Llama and alpaca wool are fine textile obtained from animals of the camel kind native to South America.
In the mining regions the llama is used as a pack-animal, and a large part of the mine products reach the markets by this means of transportation.
We hear much about the restriction of the plateau dweller to the cool zone in which the llama may live.
The Governor had promised to join us with llama meat for the peons.
As a matter of fact he lives far below the cool zone, where he no longer depends upon the llama but rather upon the mule for transport.
A young man came down the trail with three pack mules loaded with llama meat.
In the meantime I had intercepted two Indians who had come from Cotahuasi driving a llama train loaded with corn.
The llama is shy, stupid, and quiet, and his head is somewhat like a sheep's.
The llama is distributed over the greater part of the Andes, and the male only is used as a transport animal.
Boturini thus describes the paper used by the Aztecs: 'El Papel Indiano se componia de las pencas del Maguey, que en lengua Nacional se llama Metl, y en Castellano Pita.
These latter were clad in garments of llama cloth and boots and belts of leather, and they wore caps of cloth with back and ear flaps.
Attempts to introduce the Llama and Alpaca from Bolivia.
In front of the body it was customary to place two rows of pots containing quinua, maize, potatoes, dried llama flesh, and other kinds of provisions, and these pots were all covered with small lids.
Some old travellers have stated that the Indians employ the llama for riding and for draught; but these accounts are quite erroneous.
The speckled brown llamais in some districts called the moromoro.
When the llama finds his burthen too heavy he lies down, and cannot be made to rise until some portion of the weight is removed from his back.
In form it so nearly resembles the llama, that until a very recent period, zoologists were of opinion that the llama was an improved species of the huanacu, and that the latter was the llama in its wild state.
The price of a strong full-grown llama is from three to four dollars; but if purchased in flocks in the provinces above named, they may be had for one and a half or two dollars each.
I allude to the llama and his co-genera the alpaco, the huanacu, and the vicuña.
The flesh of the llama is spongy, and not agreeable in flavor.
Its size is between that of the llama and the alpaco.
The burthen carried by the llama should not exceed one hundred and twenty-five pounds, and the animal is seldom laden with more than a hundred-weight.
The two first are kept as domestic animals; the llama perfectly, and the alpaco partially tame.
The Vicuna is the smallest species of the Llama genus.
There are three species of Llama—the Llama proper, the Paca, and the Vicuna.
The Llama was the only beast of burden made use of by the Peruvians at the time America was discovered by Europeans, and it exists nowhere else in a wild state.
In more ways than one theLlama is most valuable to the inhabitants of the mountains; for the flesh of the young is good and wholesome food, their skin produces a leather of value, and their hair is used for various manufactures.
Each llama had its own driver; the expedition therefore consisted of thirty-eight people, all told, including the two white men.
This house as the distance of the Cut shows, is not far from the Llama House and circular Aviary.
The present Cuts represent a few of the recent improvements in the Zoological Gardens, as, the addition of the clock-house and weathercock[5] to the Llama House.
The llama is the only representative of the camel family on the western hemisphere.
Probably there had never been any llama on the island, but the Indians were frightened of the cave, with its galloping ghosts, and would not enter it.
The hill owed its name, he explained, to a large cave, in which a legendary herd of llama was said to have its abode.
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.
And now I heard the tread of hastening feet, And, in the western glen, a Llama bleat.
The llama has two notable peculiarities: when angry it will expectorate at its enemy, and when hurt will shed tears.
We do not agree with those who pronounce the llama an awkward creature.
The llama is found nearly all over South America, and is often seen as a beast of burden at Callao, taking the place here which the donkey or burro fills in Mexico.
They domesticated the dog and the llama of the Andes.
In the New World, the only important domestic animal was the llama of the Andes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "llama" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
