SPORTING AND GUARD DOGS 



was returning from Peking. She informed us that she had a 

 hundred dogs for her sleigh. One goes in front as guide, 

 those in harness follow it without turning aside, halting only 

 at certain points, where they are exchanged for others taken 

 from those held in leash. She maintained that she had often 

 made a continuous journey of 100 li (30 miles).' " * 



Similar, no doubt, is the race of dogs said by Griffis f to 

 be the only animal domesticated by the Ainu of Japan. He 

 says they are taught to hunt bear and deer, to watch on the 

 shore for the incoming salmon, to rush into the water, drive 

 the fish, bite off the salmon's head, and to leave its body at his 

 master's feet. 



The breed appears to extend North into Tibet, for 

 Percival Landon describes the dogs which swarm over that 

 country and form one of its principal features as being of a 

 type " rather that of the Esquimaux sledge-dog." J 



Dr. Wells Williams states that " In Anhui a peculiar 

 variety (of dog) has pendent ears of great length and thin 

 wirey tails." 



Some writers mention Chinese crested dogs and a hairless 

 dog. The hairless type appears to be as elusive as the 

 " Raccoon dogs of China and Japan," || and the naked dogs of 

 Turkey and Egypt. The Zoological Society records that a 

 hairless Egyptian variety of the familiar dog died in its garden 

 in 1833. Buffon described a dog naturally destitute of hair 

 under the name " Le Chien Turc." Later writers state that 

 the race is unknown in Turkey. Others deny that a hairless 

 Egyptian race has any existence. 



* Grosier, " De la Chine," vol. iv, p. 244. 



f W. E. Griffis, " The Japanese Nation in Evolution," p. 9. For a similar use of 

 the dog in salmon -fishing in Britain, see Pinkerton's " Voyages," vol. ii. 

 J " Lhasa," Percival Landon, p. 387. 

 " Middle Kingdom," vol. i, p. 319. 

 || Proc. Zoo/. Soc., 1868, p. 492. 



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