This greatly facilitates the Indian method of hunting, for they are thus easily driven to a central point, and are encompassed.
The guanacos readily take to the water: several times at Port Valdes they were seen swimming from island to island.

Byron, in his voyage, says he saw them drinking salt water.

Some of our officers likewise saw a herd apparently drinking the briny fluid from a salina near Cape Blanco.

I imagine in several parts of the country, if they do not drink salt water, they drink none at all.

In the middle of the day they frequently roll in the dust, in saucer-shaped hollows.