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a piece taken out of that part of the neck over the 
root of the tongue. Although we have not ac- 
tually seen the wounds of the wolf, yet there 
are two or three circumstances which lead us to 
suppose, that he suffered at least as much as the 
dog: for, in the first place, the dog is a very 
powerful one, and certainly much superior in point 
of strength tohisenemy ; and, in the next place, we 
found a considerable quantity of blood at a place, 
where the latter animal had lain down, about a 
mile from the ships, from which we may conclude 
that he had received some serious wounds, since 
the blood was not staunched after having gone that 
distance and in such weather. We were some- 
what at loss at first, when the dog came on board, 
to know what animal he had been fighting with ; 
for we had no reason to think that it had been with 
a wolf, since a dog belonging to one of the officers 
of the Griper has been seen frequently with one of 
that species, which has been in the habit of coming 
within sight of the ships for several days past ;_ in- 
deed, the dog in question had been away the greatest 
part of last night and this morning, as we suppose, 
with a wolf. The only way therefore in which I can 
account for the favourable reception with which one 
dog has been received, whilst another has been so 
roughly used, is, that the latter may have fallen in 
with a male wolf, at the same time that the former 
may have been paying his court to the female; 
besides, the Griper’s dog is mostly of the same 
colour as the wolves themselves, and might there- 
fore very possibly be mistaken by them for one of 
their own kind; but our dog, being perfectly 
