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the dogs find that the driver has lost his stick, un- 
less the leader is both steady and resolute, they im- 
mediately set off at full speed, and continue to run 
till their strength is exhausted, or till the carriage is 
overturned and dashed to pieces, or hurried down a 
precipice and buried in the snow. 
The Greenland dogs live a very hardy life, sleep- 
ing constantly abroad, where they make a lodge in 
the snow, in which they lie completely covered ex- 
cept their noses. 
The wild dogs which are found in desert and de- 
populated countries, do not differ materially from 
wolves, if we except the facility with which they 
may be tamed. The wild dogs of America are of 
the domestic race, and were transported thither 
from Europe. Some of them have been abandoned 
in these deserts, where they have multiplied so pro- 
digiously that they spread over the inhabited coun- 
tries in great packs, attack the domestic cattle, 
and even insult the natives, who are obliged to di- 
sperse and kill them like other ferocious animals. 
Wild dogs, though they have no knowledge of 
man, when approached by him with gentleness, 
will soon soften, become familiar, and remain at- 
tached to their masters. But the wolf, though 
taken young, and brought up in the house, is gentle 
when a mere cub only, never loses his taste for prey, 
and sooner or later indulges his inclination for rapine 
and destruction. 
The Count de Buffon reared a she wolf, taken in 
the woods at the age of three months, along with 
