ALLEN: DOG^S OP^ THE AMEKICAN ABORIGINES. 



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Early Accounts. — Hernandez disposes of tlie Techichi in few words, 

 as being the third sort of dog he knew to be found in Mexico. It 

 must have become scarce by his time (about 1578) as he had not seen 

 it himseU" but describes it thus: — "Catulis simiHs est nostratibus, 

 Indis eduhs, tristi aspectu, ac caetera vulgaribus simihs" (similar to 

 our spaniels, eaten l)y the Indians, of melanchoh- visage, but other- 

 wise like the common dogs). J. Jonstonus, writing in 1657, includes 

 in his account of dogs, a transcription of Hernandez's passage as to 



