72 ANECDOTES OF ANIMALS. 



nuisances. In beautiful Lisbon, rising from the Tagus 

 with her stately towers, her gardens, her churches, her 

 deep blue sky, and her noble aqueduct, leading life's 

 beverage to her exquisite fountains, these animals 

 abound, their presence being easily accounted for by 

 their owners bringing and abandoning them there at 

 the time of vintage. They eat so many grapes when 

 ripe, that they are sent away in self-defence. Woe to 

 the person who affronts one of them : he is obliged to 

 run hard, or else to keep them at bay, by threatening 

 to throw stones at them, and walking backwards. 

 Fortunately he can do this in the narrow streets of 

 this city, for he would be lost if surrounded by them. 

 They lodge by day in the holes of ruins, which are 

 plentiful in Lisbon. 



The same dogs, with regard to habits, are to be met 

 with in the cities of Russia, Turkey, and Egypt ; but 

 they differ in size and appearance. Those of Turkey 

 are particularly audacious; and in all cities where 

 cleanliness is not systematically organized, they are 

 doubtless of infinite service, though I have read in a 

 pamphlet written by a French savant, that those of 

 Egypt are one means of continuing the plague ; for they 

 uncover the carelessly-buried bodies, and drag portions 

 of flesh and clothing into the houses of the living. 



In some of the countries of Guinea, dogs are bred 

 for the table, and sit in circles in the market-places for 

 sale. I do not know from what race they come ; they 

 are not used for any other purpose, and are small, ex- 

 tremely ugly, and variously marked with brown, red, or 

 black spots. The passion for dog's flesh is in these 

 countries very strong, and no European can keep an 

 f.nimal of this kind many weeks. An officer arrived at 



