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sion to Europeans, and in general fly ferociously at a 
white face. A warmer climate relaxes all their energies, 
and they dwindle even in the valley of Nipal." 
" Those before us, which are very gentle, came from 
the neighbourhood of Diggarchee, the capital of Thibet, 
and are supposed to be the only individuals domesti- 
cated by Europeans : the Hon. Edward Gardner, British 
resident at the court of the Rajah of Nipal at Katman- 
doo, never heard of another instance, and they may 
therefore be considered very great rarities. Dr. Wallich 
brought them over to this country for the Hon. East 
India Company. The East India Company presented 
them to his Majesty, and his Majesty was graciously 
pleased to transfer them to the Garden of the Zoolo- 
gical Society." They died, we regret to add, shortly 
after their arrival. 
To the foregoing account we can only append a few 
additional details derived from the relations of those 
travellers by whom these dogs have been more parti- 
cularly noticed. The first of these is Captain Turner, 
who thus introduces them in his Account of an Em- 
bassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Thibet, 
published in 1800 : " The mansion [of the Rajah of 
Bootan] stood upon the right ; on the left was a row 
of wooden cages, containing a number of large dogs, 
tremendously fierce, strong, and noisy. They were 
natives of Thibet ; and whether savage by nature, or 
soured by confinement, they were so impetuously furi- 
ous, that it was unsafe, unless the keepers were near, 
even to approach their dens." 
A few pages further on our author exhibits them in 
a much more favourable point of view, as the watchful 
guardians of the fold. But the most characteristic 
anecdote respecting them furnished by Captain Turner 
is thus related. Entering a Thibet village, and " being," 
he says, " indolently disposed, and prompted by mere 
