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with his dog, and with his dog's wife, and he must have done 

 the journey in a seaworthy boat capable of traversing this 

 unquiet portion of the ocean with his considerable cargo. 

 Besides this living freight, and the food and water necessary 

 for the adventure, he carried other things — he carried a know- 

 ledge of the boomerang, of the basis of a totem system, and 

 various other cultural features, all bearing a strange sug- 

 gestion of very distinctly western origin. " 



This statement has been regarded by some critics as 

 being over-confident; but the examination of the cranial 

 characters of the Dingo, and the comparison of his dental 

 features with those of other Cynoids induces me to repeat it 

 with added confidence. 



Since the Dingo is a descendant of the northern wolves, 

 and ranks merely as a variety of domesticated or feral dog r 

 the name Cams dingo, given to the animal by Blumenbach, 

 in 1878, cannot zoologically apply; and Australia's feral dog 

 should be known as Canis familiaris dingo. 



