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and often goes with Mrs. Brough to feed the fowls, and sits there whilst 

 they are feeding all round him without taking any notice of them. 

 If a strange dog threatens him, he neither seems aggressive nor timid, 

 and it never comes to a fight. I take him out to exercise on the 

 sands every morning with about ten couples of Bloodhounds, young 

 and old. He is, I think, more generally admired than any dog we 

 have, although the Bloodhounds, Deerhound, and Chinese get a good 

 share of attention. Myouk is very hardy, and although we have 

 taken him long distances when much younger than now, I never saw 



FIG. 77. THE ESQUIMAUX MYOUK. 



him appear really tired. I think you could hardly get to the bottom 

 of him." 



Myouk (Fig. 77), as will be seen by his pedigree, was much inbred 

 to Sir John Franklin, unquestionably one of the best Esquimaux 

 ever exhibited. Sir John Franklin was said to have been one of 

 the dogs brought over in the Pandora by Sir Allen Young, but 

 whether this is really the case is doubtful, although there can be 

 little question that he was not bred in this country. He would 

 follow through the crowded streets of London, and never attempted 

 to interfere with anything ; it was, too, a daily occurrence for him to 

 be loose with a dozen or more Esquimaux and the same number of 

 Mastiffs and other dogs, and no trouble ever occurred, and he travelled 



