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Bay Company for me fur trade with the Sioux Indians), 

 Captain Fremont attended a feast of this description. (Fre- 

 mont's Exploring Expedition, 1845, p. 42.) 



The Peruvian dogs had a singular part to play in eclipses 

 of the moon : they were beaten until the eclipse was over. 

 The Mexican Techichi, a variety of the common dog, which 

 latter was called in Anahuac Chichi, was completely dumb. 

 Techichi signifies literally stone-dog, from the Aztec, Tetl, a 

 stone. The Techichi was eaten according to the old Chinese 

 fashion. The Spaniards found this food, before the intro- 

 duction of European cattle, so indispensable, that almost the 

 whole race was gradually extirpated. (Clavigero, Storia antica 

 del Messico, 1780, T. i. p. 73.) Buffon confounds the 

 Techichi with the Koupara of Guiana. (T. xv. p. 155.) 

 The latter is identical with the Procyon or Ursus can- 

 crivorus, the Baton crabier, or crab-eating Aquara- 

 guaza of the Patagonian 'coast. ( Azara sur les quadrupedes 

 du Paraguay, T. i. p. 315.) Linnaeus, on the other hand, 

 confounds the dumb variety of dogs with the Mexican 

 Itzcuintepotzotly a kind of dog still only imperfectly de- 

 scribed, said to be distinguished by a short tail, a very 

 small head, and a large hump on the back. The name 

 signifies humped-dog, and is formed from the Aztec, 

 itzcuintli (another word for dog), and tepotzotli, humped, a 

 humpback. T was particularly struck in America, and 

 especially in Quito and generally in Peru, with the great 

 number of black dogs without hair, called by Buffon 

 "chiens turcs" (Canis segyptius, Linn.) Even among the 

 Indians this variety is common, but it is generally despised 



