A Fine Thing?

The llama or Lama glama is a South American camelid, widely used as a pack and meat animal by Andean cultures since pre-hispanic times. Although early writers compared llamas to sheep, their similarity to the camel was soon recognized. They were included in the genus Camelus along with alpaca in the Systema Naturae of Linnaeus. Someone encrypting a message can make decryption more difficult by choosing unusual words and removing punctuation and the spacing between words. See if you can work out the method used for encrypting this message. Think about sequences if you get stuck.

Affine cipher:

a -> Q

b -> Z

c -> I

d -> R

e -> A

f -> J

g -> S

h -> B

i -> K

j -> T

k -> C

l -> L

m -> U

n -> D

o -> M

p -> V

q -> E

r -> N

s -> W

t -> F

u -> O

v -> X

w -> G

x -> P

y -> Y

z -> H

x->9x+8