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CHAPTER I 

 EASTERN DOGS IN EARLY TIMES 



dog is believed, on evidence furnished by cave 

 deposits, to have been introduced into Europe by 

 neolithic peoples,* and to have been about the size 

 of an ordinary shepherd's dog.f 



Geological research being in its infancy in China, it is too 

 much to hope that similar information as to introduction 

 of the dog into China will become available for some time. 

 It is known, from literary sources, that the Chinese has been an 

 agricultural race from its earliest days. It has always con- 

 sidered agriculture to be the root of its existence. It must, 

 however, have been to some extent pastoral, though the valley 

 of the Yellow River, in which the Chinese first settled, was 

 probably well wooded at the time of arrival. Dogs were, no 

 doubt, used for the defence of the home, for the herding of 

 sheep and cattle, and for the chase. 



In Japan geological research has been assisted by scientific 

 examination of numerous dolmen and lake deposits similar to 

 those found in England. The well-known writer, Brinkley, 

 states that the early Japanese were derived from two swarms of 

 colonists, both coming from Siberia, their arrival being 

 separated by a long interval, the first cave-dwellers and the 

 second the Ainu, who used stone implements and practised 

 cannibalism. Among the amusements confined to men, 



* Professor Boyd Dawkins, " Cave Hunting," pp. 256-7. 



f Professor Rolleston, " Scientific Papers and Addresses," p. 522. 



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