654 DOGS AND SAVAGES. 



animal, so the peoples that extend their training to no other animal, 

 probably from natural incapacity for progress, remain at the lowest 

 and oldest stage of the development of man. In other words, they 

 appear as primitive races. 



In those places where dog-eating is the custom, and where young 

 and fat dogs are considered great delicacies, much care is bestowed on 

 the young puppies, and only too frequently have travelers seen young 

 mothers give them the breast. Thus, in [New Guinea 1 and in Australia 

 the father even kills his own child that the mother may give suck to 

 a puppy, and similar cases have been often noted 2 at Tahiti, 3 Hawaii, 

 and the Society Islands. 4 In upper Burma, in 1879, Joest saw in the 

 bazar in Thayetmyo a young Burman girl nursing at one breast her own 

 offspring, at the other a small dog, and in Mandalay he was assured 

 that young mothers reckon it an honor to give suck to little white ele- 

 phants; that the Ainu women of Tezzo nurse little bears in the same 

 way is well known. 5 Wrangel was the witness of an incident in the 

 polar regions similar to that which Joest saw in Burma. The women 

 of the Paumaris in Peru nurse dogs and monkeys as do those of Dutch 

 Guiana and others. 7 In Gran Ohaco the women willingly nurse young 

 dogs, but never motherless babies. 8 Frequently the reverse condition 

 exists; for example, Chinese women of Java give their children female 

 dogs from which to nurse. 9 * * * But the dog is handled and 

 well cared for not only in those regions where he is an important 

 article of food, but still more frequently when he is a helpful hunting 

 companion, as with the Wagandas. 10 The Shilluk never treat their 

 dogs badly; neither will they allow anyone else to do so'. 11 The beau- 

 tiful "slugi" is the favorite of the Arab and his children, 12 and is 

 treated well by the boys. 13 With the Battaks each boy has a particular 

 dog as a "kaban,"or companion, that is highly regarded even when 

 very old. 14 With the Patagouians favorite dogs are formally adopted. 15 



1 Ch. Lyne, New Guinea, p. 34; Ausland, 1866, 570 Finsch, Samoafahrten, p. 53, and 

 in the Annalen des naturhist. Hofmuseums Wien, III, No. 4, p. 322; Zeitschr. f. Ethno- 

 logie, XXI, 13. 



-Darwin Var., I, 48; Waitz, VI. 779; Keppel, A visit to the Indian Archipelago, II, 

 172; Erzherzog Ludw. Salvator, Hobarttown, p. 65. 



3 Peschel's Neue Probleme, p. 44; cf. Neue Deutsche Jagdz., VIII, 231. 



4 Archiv. f. Anthropol., IV, 219. 



5 Ausland, 1886, 360; Der Hund, XIV, 16. 

 6 Reise, 1,214. 



7 Ausland, 1886, 265; 1887,578; Kappler, Holland. Guiana, p. 116, and Hartsinks in 

 Beckmann's Physikal.-okon. Bibliothek, XIV, 19. 



8 Waitz, III, 480. 



9 Diener, Leben in der Tropenzone, p. 72. 



10 Zeitschr. f. Ethnologie, II, 138. 



11 Jahresbericht der Geogr. Ges. Bern, p. 105. 

 I2 Kobelt, Reiseerinnerungen aus Algier, p. 304. 

 )3 Baumann, Fernando Poo, p. 88. 



14 V. Brenner, Besuch bei d. Kannibalen Sumatras, p. 251„ 

 16 Behm, Geogr. Jahrb., V, 142; cf. Ausland, 1888, 349. 



