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so say the Indians, and I certainly never saw it, 
although I have seen hundreds of skins. This 
induces me to attribute its origin to domestica- 
tion; the tamed ‘cayote’ or dog, shunning the 
wolf, but interbreeding with the wild ‘ cayote,’ 
thus propagated it. 
VOL. IL. Q 
