guanacoes

Their food consists of the carcases of guanacoes, deer, cattle, and other animals.

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There was not a cloud in the intense blue sky, and the rays of the sun came down with great force, and blistered our skin and peeled our noses till we were afraid of touching them; but we did not think much about that trifle while the guanacoes were in sight.

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The advice was good, and I was about to follow it, when one of the guanacoes turned his head and saw us.

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We now reached a wide valley, on the sides of which, far up on the mountains, we descried a number of animals, which Jerry and I concluded, without doubt, were the much-desired guanacoes.

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Surley, and I, pushed on up the mountain as fast as we could climb towards the nearest herd of guanacoes.

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The chase after the guanacoes had led us a long way, and I found it very difficult to calculate distances or the size of objects in that bright atmosphere, where the proportions of all surrounding objects were so vast.

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Santiago, seeing all the sights of that city, though Jerry and I agreed that we would rather have been in the mountains shooting guanacoes or hunting pumas, -- so I daresay would old Surley.

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He told me that they live chiefly on flesh -- that of horses, or emus, or guanacoes (a species of llama), and any other animal they can catch.

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I hope he won't go back and eat up our guanacoes. "

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