IHE DOG. 



sequence that lie is to be regarded by the commu/iity at large 

 as a tame dog. The individual who has tamed him is welcome to 

 his services ; but to the rest of the world he is a wil'd dog stiU, 

 and willing to substantiate the title against any one rash enough 

 to dispute it. For this reason, it wotild seem improbable that 

 the buansuah will ever be numbered among cam/is farmlAa/ris. 



There exist in different countries animals of the dog species 

 that, while they may repudiate utter savagery, cannot claim to 

 be considered as domesticated. Among these may be classed 

 the Asiatic street dogs, that possess no inconsiderable semblance 

 to the wolf, botn in appearance and habit. These dogs are not 

 at all scrupulous about attacking a lone man, shoxdd the sun 

 be down and all snug and quiet. It is said that these pariahs 

 divide into bodies, and, portioning the city into lots, each body 

 keeps to its own ground. Should a dog of one body pass the 

 boundary and trespass on the groxmd of another body, he will 

 infallibly be fallen on and devoured. A modern writer relates, 

 that not long ago a traveller, who was well accustomed to the 

 Bast, was rather in a hurry, and took a short cut through 

 some bye-way. As commonly happens, the short cut proved 

 a very long one, for a number of these dogs, resenting the in- 

 trusion of a stranger on their particular territories, immediately 

 assaulted him. He was forced to stand at bay with his back 

 against a wall, exerting all his energies, to the discomfiture of 

 the leader of the pack, a ferocious-looking cxir, scarred in aU 

 parts of his body by the numerous battles in which he had been 

 engaged. In this position he waited until help arrived, and 

 took this as a warning never again to go by a short cut in an 

 Oriental city. 



Among liie North American Indians, hordes of semi-savage 

 dogs prowl in the neighbourhood of the tents, literally snatch- 

 ing a living from the cooking-pots and ofial cast out by the 

 natives. Although, however, the Indian will not feed his dog, 

 he has not the least objection to feed on him ; in fact, dog-flesh 

 is considered a delicacy, and one that is never missing from the 

 board whenever an ertraordinary feast is in progress. The 

 manner '~f conducting these dog-meat orgies is peculiar. In 

 one of them, the Uver of the dog is tied to a pole, and the 

 savages, gorgeously attired in feathers and red and yellow ochre, 

 perform a sort of maypole dance round it, each dancer snatch- 

 ing with his teeth a Kttle bit of the liver, until the last morsel 

 is consumed. 



One of their religious ceremonies has dog's-meat attached to 



