HISTORICAL NOTES 37 



good panoramic view of the evolution of Ms 

 favourite breeds. Like the gun, and the art of 

 hunting itself, it is a story going far back into the 

 dim past, so far beyond the earliest records of 

 science and agriculture that we have only to 

 glimpse that shadowy figure of the Taigal man 

 and his dingo dogs, who visited Australia in Pleis- 

 tocene times, to realise, not only how ancient is 

 man, but how ancient, also, is his trusty dog. 



