218 DOG OF THE TENQGER. 



Tengger was living a peculiar kind of clogs , very well to 

 be compared to the finest european canine species, all the 

 amateurs of dogs emulously tried to procure them; they 

 have been named "Tenggereezen" or "Tenggerese dogs". 

 This affection however was their ruin, for the Tenggerese 

 dogs do not exist as yet! They could not live without 

 mountains, they died not by "Heimweh", but by the heat 

 of the lower regions , where they participated with different 

 diseases, where they pined away and languished. No female 

 specimen is in existence, only some males: as the latter 

 breed with common kampoug-dogs , the latest trace of 

 Tenggerese dog soon will disappear for ever. — There is 

 on Java still another "dog-island", namely the Diëng- or 

 Ding-mountains, in middle Java, Residence of Pekalongan , 

 where is living a wild dog also long-haired and brown , 

 and like the Tenggerese only thrives well in the mountains. 

 They however are quite different animals. As I paid a visit 

 to those mountains I had not the good luck of seeing a 

 Dieng-dog, as they too are neariug their end: after the 

 information I could gather the Dieng-dog is smaller, its 

 hair shorter and lighter colored , it generally is less beau- 

 tiful than the Tenggerese dog. The Dieng-dog living on 

 the very spot where in formerly times was an old city 

 from the flindouperiod may be a descendant of dogs im- 

 ported by the foreign priests : on the Tengger however is 

 not to be detected a trace of Hindou-relics , and it is 

 supposed that these mountains have been inhabited only 

 from about 400 years backward. Other naturalists may 

 perhaps be happier than I and discover the relation between 

 the Tenggerese and other dogs. The color of the fleese, 

 thick like sheep's wool, is light brown with a reddish 

 shade and blackish brown streaks: one of the latter runs 

 from the base of the nose along the spine to the tip of 

 beautiful plumy tail ; another streak descending from the 

 nape of the neck makes a nice dark collar ; two other bands 

 descend from the dorsal streak, one from its middle, the 

 other above the hind legs , they however are short as they 



Notes from tlie Leyden Miuseuxn, Vol. XVUl. 



