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much interesting information about the breed and the Samoyede 

 people. 



It has been said that many of these Northern dogs do not boast 

 the most amiable of tempers. Whatever may be said in this respect 

 of their allies from Greenland and the New World, it cannot be said 

 of the Samoyede dog, as known in this country, where he has been 

 proved as docile and tractable as any of the varieties of dogs known 

 as domesticated. Mr. Ernest Kilburn Scott, who brought his brown 

 Samoyede Sabarka from Archangel so long ago as 1889, gives the 



FIG. 79. SAMOYEDE DOG. 



variety a first-rate character on the score of amiability, when fed 

 and treated after the manner of domestic dogs generally. He, how- 

 ever, admits that when in their own very trying climate, and being 

 fed upon a constant flesh and a fish diet, the dogs are inclined to be 

 quarrelsome amongst themselves. 



White is the colour most admired in this country, as also in their 

 native home, and many fine specimens have from time to time been 

 bred or imported. Judges are unanimous in their praise of the snow- 

 white Baldo, the property of Mr. Pearce Couch, of Penzance, as the 

 most typical yet introduced. In a breed renowned for intelligence, 

 he was particularly clever at tricks. Other famous whites are Queen 



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