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feasts, and dog flesh was in high esteem.”* We have not 
found any marks of cutting instruments, as was the case 
with the bones found by Steenstrup in the shell-heaps of 
Denmark, and from which cireumstance he inferred that 
dogs were eaten. In fact, they have served as food in so 
many parts of the world, that the use of their flesh any- 
where ought not to be considered an improbability. 
A whole left half of the lower jaw of a wolf was found 
at Mount Desert, measuring 7.5 inches in length, making 
a strong contrast in size, with a similar half from a dog 
found at Crouch’s Cove. This was more curved, and had 
a length of a little less than five inches. 
The bones of dirds, like those of the deer, were almost 
without exception broken, but in quite a different man- 
ner. In the latter it was the shaft that was shattered, the 
ends often remaining uninjured; while in the birds the 
shaft was whole, and the ends not only broken off, but 
nowhere to be found. It is not to be supposed that they 
were so broken off for the extraction of the marrow, since 
those containing only air were treated in the same way. 
Steenstrup having observed the same fact in the remains 
from the Danish shell-heaps, suspected that they were 
mutilated by dogs, and accordingly by way of experi- 
ment, having kept some of these animals on short diet, 
gave them various bird bones to eat. He found, as he 
had anticipated, that they ate the ends, rejecting the 
Shaft. He explains their choice by the greater spongi- 
hess, and easier digestibility of the formar as compared 
with the dense middle portion of the latter. No doubt 
an additional inducement was found in the remains of 
flesh, tendon, and ligament, which would usually remain 
adherent to the ends, after the portions ordinarily eaten 
=F an.. Jesuits in America. Boston, 1867. p. 30. 
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