370 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
foules, as blacke foxes, deere, otters, greate foules with red 
legges, pengwyns, and certaine others.” . . . . “ Thereupon nine 
or tenne of his fellowes, running right up over the bushes with 
greate agilitie and swiftnes, came towards us with white staves in 
their handes like halfe pikes, and their dogges of colour blacke, 
not so bigge as a grayhounde, followed them at their heeles; but 
wee retired unto our boate without any hurt at all received.” * 
It is probably this variety, the bones of which have been 
found by Dr. J. Wyman in the shell-heaps of Casco Bay, Maine. 
‘‘The presence of the bones of the dog might be accounted 
for on the score of its being a domesticated animal, but the fact 
that they were not only found mingled with the edible kinds, but, 
like them, were broken up, suggests the probability of their 
having been used as food.” 
We have not seen it mentioned, however, by any of the 
earlier writers that such was the case along the coast, though it 
appears to have been otherwise with regard to some of the 
interior tribes, as the Hurons. With them, game being scarce, 
“venison was a luxury found only at feasts, and dog-flesh was in 
high esteem.” . 
A whole left-half of a lower jaw of a Wolf was found at Mount 
Desert, measuring 7°5 inches in length, making a strong contrast 
in size with a similar half from a dog found at Crouch’s Cove. 
This was more curved, and had a length of a little less than 
5 inches.+ 
It is possible that the Newfoundland Dog was indigenous on 
that island, and also an offshoot of the Gray Wolf allied to the 
Eskimo. In their ‘Newfoundland, Messrs. Hatton & Harvey 
say (pp. 194, 195), that “There are few fine specimens of the 
world-renowned Newfoundland dog to be met with now in the 
island, from which it derived its name. The origin of this fine 
breed is now lost in obscurity. It is doubtful whether the 
Aborigines possessed the dog at all; and it is highly improbable 
that the Newfoundland dog is indigenous. Some happy crossing 
of breeds may have produced it here. The old settlers say that 
* “The voyage of the ship called the ‘ Marigold,’ of M. Hill, of Redrise, 
unto Cape Breton and beyond, to the latitude of 44 degrees and a half, 1593. 
Written by Richard Fisher, Master Hilles man, of Redrise.”—Hakluyt, 
« Voyages,’ ili., p. 239. 
+ ‘The American Naturalist,’ January, 1868, p. 576. 
