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stances with native dogs. In. many localities 

 where this interbreeding took place, no record will 

 remain of a pointer, setter, and spaniel having 

 ever been there ; the type of the bull-dog, too, will 

 be impressed on succeeding generations. To what 

 conclusion could any one arrive, with these facts 

 hidden ? Such is the present condition of all the 

 Indian dogs along the entire extent of the north- 

 west coast; one may find types representing 

 every known variety. 



At Sweltza, a small lake west of the Cascades, 

 near which the Boundary line passed, I saw 

 a little tribe of Indians that had a number 

 of dogs, that were hardly in any degree altered 

 from the cayote; more than this, they actually 

 burrowed deeply into the ground to bring forth 

 their young, and it was a common thing to see 

 the puppies playing as young foxes do, at the 

 entrance to the burrows, dashing into them 

 like wild beasts on the slightest alarm. We 

 had one of the puppies at our headquarters in 

 Vancouver Island; a regular little wolf, but un- 

 luckily he got under a cart wheel, and was 

 crushed to death. 



The following specific characters of Canis la- 

 trans express with a few trifling exceptions those 

 of the true Indian dog : 



