d rags were freshly adjusted.

"The poor vicunas, nearly fifty in number, were all killed or captured.
When pursued up to the `sham-fence' they neither attempted to rush
against it or leap over, but would wheel suddenly round, and run
directly in the faces of their pursuers!

"The sport became even more interesting when all but a few were _hors de
combat_. Then the odd ones that remained were each attacked by several
hunters at once, and the rushing and doubling of the animals--the many
headings and turnings--the shouts of the spectators--the whizzing of the
bolas--sometimes two or three of these missiles hurled at a single
victim--all combined to furnish a spectacle to me novel and exciting.

"About twenty minutes after the animals had entered the rope inclosure
the last of them was seen to `bite the dust,' and the chacu of that day
was over. Then came the mutual congratulations of the hunters, and the
joyous mingling of voices. The slain vicunas were collected in a heap--
the skins stripped off, and the flesh divided among the different
families who took part in the chacu.

"The skins, as we have said, fell to the share of the `church,' that is,
to the church's representative--the padre, and this was certainly the
lion's share of the day's product.

"The ropes were now unfastened and coiled--the rags once more bundled,
and the stakes pulled up and collected--all to be used on the morrow in
some other part of the Puna. The meat was packed on the horses and
mules, and the hunting party, in a long string, proceeded to camp. Then
followed a scene of feasting and merriment--such as did not fall to the
lot of these poor people every day in the year.

"This chacu lasted ten days, during which time I remained in the company
of my half-savage friends. The whole game killed amounted to five
hundred and odd vicunas, with a score or two guanacos, several tarush,
or deer of the Andes (_Cervus antisensis_) and half a dozen black bears
(_Ursus ornatus_). Of course only the vicunas were taken in the chacu.
The other animals were started incidentally, and killed by the hunters
either with their bolas, or guns, with which a few of them were armed."

The "chacu" of the Andes Indians corresponds to the "surround" of the
Indian hunters on the great plains of North America. In the latter
case, however, buffaloes are usually the objects of pursuit, and no
fence is attempted--the hunters trusting to their horses to keep the
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