AN UNRULY PACK. 223 



softer, and more uniform in coloration, although 



o 



the tail retains its bushy appearance. Whether this 

 alteration in the coat is due to the greater warmth 

 of the lodges, I cannot tell ; diet can have nothing 

 to do with it, for the dogs live in the Indian lodges 

 pretty much the same as cayotes do when wild. 



I have given this brief description of the 

 cayote's specific characters under the head of 

 dogs, because, as I have endeavoured to show, 

 my belief is, the dog, indigenous to British Co- 

 lumbia, is nothing more than a tamed cayote. 



The Indians use them only for driving game. 

 Putting a pack of the wolfish scrubby curs into 

 a pine forest is like loosing so many wolves; 

 away they tear, rushing up everything that comes 

 in their way. If a puma or lynx is scared into 

 a tree, the dogs at once surround it, and keep 

 up the extraordinary double bark I endeavoured 

 to describe, until the savages, who know that 

 something is tree'd when they hear it, hasten to 

 the spot and shoot the prisoner. Bears are 

 generally either tree'd or driven to the rocks ; sur- 

 rounded by these snapping pests they take no 

 heed of the hunters, who, stealing close up, kill 

 them, without risk of attack. 



Entering an Indian camp on foot, be it night 

 or day, is really a risy thing to do. The prick- 



