THE CHINESE PUG 



Holland, Zealand and Utrecht under the Spanish Govern- 

 ment. In 1571 he took up arms against King Philip of 

 Spain, and the incident recorded by Sir Roger Williams 

 must have taken place between this time and the recall of 

 Alva in 1573. The Portuguese may well have introduced 

 the Chinese pug into Europe, and the dog in question may 

 have been secured from Portugal. 



' The Prince of Orange being retired into the camp, 

 Julian Romero, with earnest persuasions, procured licence of 

 the Duke d'Alva to hasard a camisado or night attack, upon 

 the Prince. At midnight Julian sallied out of the trenches 

 with a thousand armed men, mostly pikes, who forced all the 

 guards that they found in their way into the place of arms 

 before the Prince's tent, and killed two of his secretaries. 

 The Prince himself escaped very narrowly, for I have often 

 heard him say that he thought but for a dog he should have 

 been taken or slain. The attack was made with such resolu- 

 tion that the guards took no alarm until their fellows were 

 running to the place of arms with their enemies at their 

 heels, when this dog, hearing a great noise, fell to scratching 

 and crying, and awakened him before any of his men ; and 

 though the Prince slept armed, with a lackey always holding 

 one of his horses ready bridled and saddled, yet at the going 

 out of his tent with much ado he recovered his horse before 

 the enemy arrived. Nevertheless one of his equerries was 

 slain, taking horse presently after him, as were divers of his 

 servants. The Prince, to show his gratitude, until his dying 

 day kept one of that dog's race, and so did many of his friends 

 and followers. These animals were not remarkable for their 

 beauty, being little white dogs, with crooked noses, called 

 camuses (flat-nosed)." * 



* " Actions in the Low Countries," Sir Roger Williams, printed 1618. 

 Camuses. The French word camus means " a person having a short and flat 

 nose. Used of the dogs of Artois and Boulogne which were varieties of ' carlin ' 



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