224 A DANGEROUS IMPRISONMENT. 
eared guards swarm out from every lodge, like 
wasps from a shaken nest, and without any en- 
quiry as to what your business may be, make 
straight at your legs, biting too in real earnest, 
if stick and toe are not vigorously plied, until the 
squaws, rushing to the rescue, lay on with lodge- 
poles, and release you from an imprisonment 
very desirable if practised on ‘Ephraim,’ * but 
very disagreeable to legs thinly trousered. 
The dogs are fed in great measure on fish; the 
salmon that die, as described in Vol. I., afford a 
rich banquet to dogs, bears, wolves, and foxes. 
If, however, imported dogs are fed for any time 
on salmon, they get a kind of distemper, called 
by the settlers ‘ salmon sickness,’ which is nearly 
always fatal. 
The ‘cayotes’ and so-called dogs are both 
subject to a kind of mange, producing redness 
and irritability of skin, followed by loss of hair, 
and rapid wasting. I killed several cayotes, so 
bad from it as to be barely able to walk, and it 
as frequently kills the dogs. Whether this affec- 
tion, clearly contagious, first arose among the 
dogs, and was by them given to the cayotes, or vice 
versa, | was not able to discover. It is worthy 
of remark too, that the grey wolf never has it— 
* Nickname for a ‘ Grizzly-bear.’ 
