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statements, that a black pug was accidentally 

 produced, and at the same time a specimen or two 

 had been brought from the East. Although Lady 

 Brassey makes no allusion to a black pug in her 

 published journals of the voyage of the "Sunbeam," 

 still I know as a fact that two or three similar dogs 

 were on her yacht, but whether they were then 

 called black pugs is another question. More likely 

 they were known as Chinese pugs. 



A writer in a recent number of Black and White 

 says : "It is rather unfortunate that the late 

 Lady Brassey should have allowed the origin of 

 the new pug to remain a mystery, but there 

 seems little doubt that it hailed from China, as 

 in a weekly contemporary, only the other day, I 

 saw a copy of an advertisement which had been 

 appearing in the North China Daily News : ' Lost, 

 near the Hong Kong and Syezchen Roads, last 

 evening, a small Peking Pug, black body and 

 head, white paws. Anyone finding same will be 

 rewarded on bringing it to Kelly and Walsh, 

 Limited, Shanghai.' The white paws were evidently 

 uncommon, and were the lost dog's distinguishing 

 marks. I have also learned that a lady in the 

 West End bought a black pug bitch from a sailor 

 on one of the cargo ships just in the docks from 

 China. Another lady at Willesden also bought 



