186 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY Tbulugs 



Cortes Hojoa apponi'S (Goicueta, 509, the text is a little lacking in 

 clearness; of. infra) to have found a wild (?) dog on one of the islands 

 near Picton Channel, in the West Patagonian channel region, and 

 also reported (ibid., 518; cf. also Del Techo, 160; Lozano, ii, 34) the 

 domesticated dog in the Chonos Archipelago. Other early explorers 

 saw dogs in the Chonos' territory (de Vea, 562, 577) or in the posses- 

 sion of Chonos (Garcia, a, 32; A. Campbell, 58; Thomas, 33). 



Narbrough was the first, so far as the present writer is aware, to 

 report the dog in the Strait of Magellan. He found the natives whom 

 he met in 1670 on Elizabeth Island in possession of large mongi-el dogs 

 of several colors (66; in do Brosses, ii, 33-34); he compared them to 

 the race of Spanish dogs, as he had those found among the Patagonians 

 of Port Julian (de Brosses, ii, 24). Twenty-six years later de Gennes 

 saw five or six small dogs among the Port Famine Alacaluf (Froger, 

 97; in de Brosses, ii, 109). From then on explorer's among the Ala- 

 caluf frequently report finding them in possession of dogs (Marcel, 

 a, 491; c, 108; Bulkeley and Cummins, anon, ed., 107; other 1743 

 ed., 131; Duclos-Guyot, h, 674, like foxes; Bougainville, 2d ed., i, 

 293; Vargas Ponce, a, 338, like the Patagonian dogs). 



The Manekenkn met by the first Cook expedition in 1769 at Good 

 Success Bay had dogs about 2 feet high with sharp ears (Parkin- 

 son, 8); they all barked (Banks, 59). Sr. Lista found the southern 

 Onas in possession of small dogs (6, 127). 



The modern Onas have two kinds of dogs (Furlong, Tc; g', 14; Cun- 

 ningham, 306-307, one Uke a fox, the other like a wolf). The Ona 

 dogs are said to be unlike those of the Canoe Indians (Spegazzini, 

 a, 20; Habn, c; Dabbene, h, 251). 



The explores who visited the Yahgans in the early part of the last 

 century found the dog common (Wcddell, 153; Ross, ii, 305; Fitz- 

 Roy, a, 201 ; Snow, &, 262). For descriptions of the Yahgan dogs see 

 Dabbene, 6, 185; Lovisato, h, 102; and especially Herculais, 137-140, 

 and Hyades, q, 391-392, 363-365. 



Whether or in how far the dog is a later accretion to Fuegian cul- 

 ture is difficult to judge from the evidence at hand. Dr. Lovisato 

 found no bones of dogs in the Elizabeth Island middens (&, 102). 

 Some of the explorer's prior to Narbrough, such as Ladi-dlero, Fletcher, 

 and L'.Hermite, desci-ibe the natives' culture in some detail, yet do 

 not ]nention the dog. Narbrough implies and Vargas Ponce (11. c.) 

 explicitly states that the dogs they saw were like the Patagonians' 

 dogs (cf. also Spegazzini, a, 20). AU this suggests, but suggests only, 

 a borrowing from Patagonia in post-Magellan times. 



Goicueta stated on the authority of Cortes Hojea that the Chonos 

 even at that early date, 1557-58, or even 1553, had dogs. Thei-e 

 seems to be no good gromid for questioning the exactitude of this 



