ORIGIN OF THE DOG. 7 



to the domestic dog, and Job xxx, c. i, v. mentions " theddgs 

 of his flock," proving at what an early date the shepherd 

 made use of the animal. While in Genesis xlix. is stated the 

 ravening nature of the wolf, the zeeb of the Hebrew and 

 Arab, derived according to M. Majlis, from the Arabic zaab 

 or daaba, to frighten. 



Harris thought the wolf to be represented on the Praenestic 

 pavement, with the mouth half open, jaws long and well 

 armed with teeth. Both Harris in his dictionary of the Nat. 

 Hist, of the Bible (Art Wolf) and Col. H. Smith Nat. Lib. 

 vol. ix. (under Thous Anthus, wild dog of Egypt) mention 

 this figure of a canine in a howling attitude figured on the 

 Praenestine, Mosaic, in the part depicting Egypt, with the 

 word EIOT- or Eton- over it, which they attribute as allied to the 

 Ethiopic plural Zybt or Azibit, for wolves, but with every 

 deference to their erudition I am inclined to think the word 

 Eioir stands for The Holy Animal /. c. Tutelar God of Upper 

 Egypt, the god of the Nile Latrator Anubis who is always 

 represented with a head of a wolfish type, which seems to me 

 best accounted for, first from the fact, that the true mastiff" 

 type was almost or entirely unknown to the early Egyptians, 

 and secondly Anubis was the shepherd watch dog of the Nile, 

 and we find the sheepdog in every clime and in every country, 

 with a wolfish type of head. This I attribute will be owing 

 to shepherds in the first instance, finding their flocks ravaged 

 by the wild dogs of the country, would capture some of their 

 young, and direct the proclivity for sheep worrying into 

 collecting them together (which is a natural instinct) when 

 directed, and then trained them to protect their charge, and 

 probably the early sheepdogs of Egypt would be of this 

 wolfish or wild dog type. 



