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attempted to resist, or would not come, he tore him to pieces, 
and did other things which were very remarkable, and worthy of 
admiration. At midnight, if a prisoner got loose, and were a 
league distant, it was but to say ‘the Indian is gone!’ or ‘Fetch 
him !’ and away Bezerillo went upon the scent, and brought him 
back. The tame Indians he knew as well as a man could know 
them, and never did them hurt; and among many tame ones, he 
could distinguish one wild one. It seemed as if he had the judg- 
ment and intelligence of a man, and that not of a foolish one. 
Salazar had one day taken an old Indian woman, among other 
prisoners, after a defeat of the natives, and for no assigned ot as- 
signable reason, but in mere wantonness of cruelty, he determined 
to set this dog upon the poor wretch. But it was to be made a 
sport of, a spectacle for the Spaniards, or the Christians, as their 
contemporary historian and fellow-Christian calls them, even while 
he is relating this story. Salazar gave the woman an old letter, 
and told her to go with it to the Governor at Aymaco. The poor 
creature went her way joyfully, expecting to be set a liberty when 
she had performed her errand. The intent was merely to get her 
away from the rest, that the dog might have a fair field, and the 
beholders a full sight. Accordingly, when she had proceeded 
little farther than a stone’s throw, Bezerillo was set at her. Hear- 
ing him come, the woman threw herself on the ground ; and her 
simple faith in Salazar’s intention and in the animal’s sagacity, 
saved her : for she held out the letter to the dog, and said ‘ O, sir 
dog, sir dog ! I am carrying a letter to the Lord Governor : don’t 
hurt me, sir dog !’ The dog seemed to understand her ; and did 
understand her, in fact, sufficiently to know that she did not look 
upon herself as a condemned person, and that she implored his 
mercy ; and he came up to her gently, and did her no harm.” 
“ In the spring of the year 1845 a mastiff-dog in Cornwall, 
having discovered that the roof of his master’s house was in flames, 
ran in-doors, howling dismally, and, pulling at the garments of the 
inmates, urged their retreat from the building ; and, hurrying out 
of the house, howled again, and directed their attention by his 
looks to the flaming roof. 
“ No animal is capable of enduring so much change, and of 
manifesting still such variety of instinct, as the dog; and it is this 
which has made it the most completely domesticated of creatures. 
But place it once more where the attaching influences of domesti- 
cation are at an end, and its old good habits are exchanged for 
new and bad ones, which shew the civilized condition to have 
operated on such parts of its character as we should have thought 
little likely to be affected. Even the barking of a dog is a lan- 
guage learned in domestication. A really wild dog does not bark, 
