Vicuñas, pacos and guanacos — the Andean camelids in the Spanish printed record

Two Spanish books describe the only large herd animals the Americas domesticated. Acosta's Seville sheets of 1590 give the llama as the greatest wealth of Peru — sheep and pack-beast in one, feeding itself on the hillside — and beside it the wild vicuña and its silk-fine undyed fleece. Garcilaso prints the Inca rule for the hunt: one district every fourth year, three years' rest, the animals sheared and released. Both also record that the herds fell after 1532.