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softer, and more uniform in coloration, although 
the tail retains its bushy appearance. Whether this 
alteration in the coat is due to the greater warmth 
of the lodges, I cannot tell; diet can have nothing 
to do with it, for the dogs live in the Indian lodges 
pretty much the same as cayotes do when wild. 
I have given this brief description of the 
cayote’s specific characters under the head of 
dogs, because, as I have endeavoured to show, 
my belief is, the dog, indigenous to British Co- 
lumbia, is nothing more than a tamed cayote. 
The Indians use them only for driving game. 
Putting a pack of the wolfish scrubby curs into 
a pine forest is like loosing so many wolves; 
away they tear, rushing up everything that comes 
in their way. If a puma or lynx is scared into 
a tree, the dogs at once surround it, and keep 
up the extraordinary double bark I endeavoured 
to describe, until the savages, who know that 
something is tree’d when they hear it, hasten to 
the spot and shoot the prisoner. Bears are — 
generally either tree’d or driven to the rocks; sur- 
rounded by these snapping pests they take no 
heed of the hunters, who, stealing close up, kill 
them, without risk of attack. 
Entering an Indian camp on foot, be it night 
or day, is really a risy thing to do. The prick- 
