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so say the Indians, and I certainly never saw it, 

 although I have seen hundreds of skins. This 

 induces me to attribute its origin to domestica- 

 tion ; the tamed ' cayote ' or dog, shunning the 

 wolf, but interbreeding with the wild ' cayote,' 

 thus propagated it. 



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