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for a share of it, he withdraws himself in a pet, and 

 refuses to take it when afterwards offered to him. 

 This jealousy, which allows of no rival in favouritism, 

 induced a friend, when he first saw its humours, to 

 observe how distinctly this pet of ours bore traces of 

 the common failings of flesh and blood. The motives 

 that influenced the dog-mind were as perceptible as 

 if they had been declared in the words of some human 

 sentiment. 



" Prince's manner of expressing his marked regard 

 is by rubbing his head into the bosom of the object 

 of his aflection, much in the way that a cat rubs 

 itself upon a person when particularly disposed to 

 fondness. He is very select in his food. He rejects 

 all vegetables, and eats only cooked flesh ; yet he is 

 passionately fond of cakes, particularly those that 

 are spiced, and is perfectly greedy of sugar. He 

 rejects fresh fish, but is insatiably disposed for that 

 which is salt. His sight is not quick, nor his 

 vision distinct ; — this is said to be the failing of the 

 breed. He is usually disposed to silence and re- 

 serve ; but he barks, and that vehemently, when he 

 is roused so to express his emotions. But the 

 temper, and the unsociable and passionate regard for 

 a single person in a household, here described, to the 

 exclusion of every one else, is the characteristic of 

 every individual of this particular race. 



" I should not forget to mention that there is a wild 

 Dog in Eastern Haiti, very different from the Feral 

 Hound of St. Domingo, delineated by Colonel 

 Hamilton Smith. This wild dog is called a Xibaro 

 {H'tbaro), and at all points resembles the Aguara dog 



