24 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
the winter, was attacked when out walking with me in a 
precisely similar manner to the Eskimo dogs. From that date 
until her arrival in England she sickened and pined away, but 
immediately after landing recovered, and is now as healthy 
an animal as one would wish to see. A cat now iu my possession, 
and in perfect health, used to be seized with fits, of precisely the 
same description as those which attacked the dogs, when taken 
on the upper deck, to which she had the greatest aversion, even 
in summer. The Eskimo dogs, though voracious and filthy 
feeders,* could not be induced to eat bread-biscuit or even meat- 
biscuits which had been brought from England especially on their 
account. On October 13th, Egerton, who had been driving a dog- — 
team, told me that two of his dogs had been taken with fits, on his 
return journey, and that a third, when close to the ship, gave a 
yelp and rolled over dead. This animal he had brought alongside 
for me on the sledge. When I got hold of the dog it had not 
been dead more than ten minutes, and, though exposed to a 
temperature of minus 10° F., was quite limp, so I conveyed it 
below and placed it in a cabin with a temperature varying from 
+33° to +38 F°. There it remained seventeen hours, and at the 
expiration of that time I went to dissect it. Much to my surprise 
I found its abdominal regions in a state of putrefaction, and the 
smell in the cabin so overpowering that it had to be washed out 
with carbolic acid and hot water to render it habitable. I opened 
the heads of several of these animals, and, in accordance with a 
suggestion of Professor Huxley, searched but without success for 
Pentastomum, a large-sized vermiform parasite which occurs in 
the frontal sinuses of the dog. The period of gestation with the 
female of the Eskimo dog is precisely the same as that of other 
domesticated dogs. 
*Stercore humano precipué gaudent. Per longam hiemem apud Floeberg 
Beach hoe pabulo, pre ceteris omnibus, vesci solebant ita ut canes stercorarios 
accuratius eos vocares. Quin etiam, quum itinera facerent, ipse auriga ne ventrem 
quidem laxare ausus est, nisi fusti aut flagello armatus, quo avidos canum greges 
arceret. 
(To be continued.) 
