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Early Accounts. — Hernandez disposes of the Techichi in few words, 

 as being the third sort of dog he knew to be found in Mexico. It 

 must have become scarce by his time (about L57S) as he had not seen 

 it himself but describes it thus: — " CatuHs similis est nostratibus, 

 Indis eduHs, tristi aspectu,ac caetera vulgaribus simiUs" (similar to 

 our spaniels, eaten by the Indians, of melancholv visage, but other- 

 wise like the common dogs). J. Jonstonus, Avriting in 1657, includes 

 in his account of dogs, a transcription of Hernandez's passage as to 



