THE SWELTZA DOGS. 221 
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 :— 
