THE ESQUIMAUX DOG. 
Canis familiaris. Var. borealis. 
In placing the Esquimaux Dog by the side of the 
Hare-Indian, we have been guided not so much by the 
degree of affinity subsisting between them, as by a 
desire to aiford an opportunity for comparing, or, if the 
reader so please, for contrasting these two remarkable 
varieties of the canine species, the faithful companions 
of two races of mankind as distinct as the dogs them- 
selves, and alike inhabitants of the same dreary climate, 
dependent on the same precarious means of subsistence, 
and sharers in the same toils, the same privations, and 
the same pursuits. This object will be sufficiently 
answered by the figure above given, and by a brief 
description of the specimen from which it was taken. 
For a more particular account of the qualities of his 
race we need hardly refer to the narratives of the various 
northern expeditions which have for the last twelve 
