Native American, or Indian Dogs. 21 



ters, is only a variety of the Indian dog. And, per- 

 haps, the dogs of the Kalmuck-Tartars, which are 

 said to have a great resemblance to the jackal, or 

 schakal, will also prove to be of the same breed. But, 

 with me, these must remain, for some time, mere 

 conjectures. For I am incapable of giving such a 

 minute description of the external and internal ap- 

 pearance of the Indian dog, as would enable the na- 

 turalists of Europe to decide a question, not the 

 least curious in the zoology of the new world. In 

 another work, I hope to be able to give a much more 

 complete account of this animal, than that which I 

 now communicate to the public. 



I have said, that the Indian dog is a much more 

 savage or unreclaimed animal than the common dog, 

 which has been introduced into America from Eu- 

 rope*. This circumstance has not escaped the no- 

 tice of some preceding writers. But I know of no 

 writer who has deduced from it so important a con- 

 clusion as Mr. Zimmermann has done. This truly 

 learned naturalist, after remarking that the Europeans 

 who have visited America, have considered the Indian 

 dogs merely as tamed wolves, proceeds to deduce the 

 conclusion, that neither America itself, nor its inha- 

 bitants, are so ancient as the countries or the people 

 of other parts of the worldf. 



some with thick black hair. They don't bark, but growl and 

 howl so much the more." 



* See page 14. 



t Specimen, &c. p. 91. 



