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CHAPTER V. THE ESQUIMAUX DOG. 



BY CORSINCON. 



THE Esquimaux dog occupies as wide a geographical range, and includes 

 as much variety, as the human species to whom the term is applied, but 

 also presents throughout its variations certain general and prominent 

 family features. 



These are a certain gaunt and wolf-like form and fierceness of 

 expression, the muzzle pointed, ears erect, and eyes more or less oblique, 

 small, and piercing, and the coat dense and deep, the latter to enable 

 them to withstand the intense cold of the northern regions of which they 

 are native. 



We have specimens of them occasionally exhibited which we may 

 assume to have been selected as superior to the general run. 



We have seen no handsomer than the dog Garry, of which we give an 

 engraving. He has been repeatedly shown in this country, and at the 

 Alexandra Palace exhibition, December, 1878, was described in the 

 catalogue as " an Esquimaux bred in the extreme north of Lombardy." 



Mr. C. E. Fryer, whose notice of Garry we reproduce from The Country, 

 entitled him a "North American wolf dog," and we find the idea that 

 these dogs, or at least special varieties of them, are produced by a cross 

 with the wolf rather commonly entertained, but there is no better reason 

 for it than his general wolfish appearance. Garry is decidedly typical of 

 the Esquimaux family of dogs, and on the subject of his breeding we have 

 little to add to our sub-note to Mr. Fryer's letter at the time it first 

 appeared. 



Mr. Fryer says : " The accompanying engraving represents one of these 

 curious dogs, which are so much prized by the natives and inhabitants 

 of North America, and so difficult to obtain in this country. The 

 cut is taken from a photograph of a dog lately owned by a member 

 of Oxford University, who gave me the following account of it : 

 Garry, the dog in question, is about eighteen months old, and has 

 been in this country seven months. He was brought from the 

 Saskatchewan Mountains, Manitoba, in the far north-west of Canada. 

 The following are the dimensions of this handsome dog : Height 



