Show ancient american clotha the mexicans spun and wove cotton and the peruvians both cotton and wool into fabrics which the spaniards found in every way equal to anything they had known at horns the peruvians in particular were adepts in the art when pizarro made the conquest of their country in 1533 he found in the empire of the incas four species of animals little different from each other which ho called the sheep of the country carperos carneros car neros de la terra because of their general resemblance to the spanish sheep and the similar utilization of its fiber two of the species the llama and alpaca had been in a state of domestication from time immemorial the remaining varieties the vicuna and the guan aca living in a wild state in the fast nesses of the andes from a variety of sources we aro able to obtain minute details of the importance which the government attached to these animals and the large part which ahey played iu the domestic economy of the country S N D north in popular science monthly |