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for a share of it, he withdraws himself in a pet, and 
refuses to take it when afterwards offered to him. 
This jealousy, which allows of no rival in favouritism, 
induced a friend, when he first saw its humours, to 
observe how distinctly this pet of ours bore traces of 
the common failings of flesh and blood. The motives 
that influenced the dog-mind were as perceptible as 
if they had been declared in the words of some human 
sentiment. 
Prince’s manner of expressing his marked regard 
is by rubbing his head into the bosom of the object 
of his affection, much in the way that a cat rubs 
itself upon a person when particularly disposed to 
fondness. He is very select in his food. He rejects 
all vegetables, and eats only cooked flesh ; yet he is 
passionately fond of cakes, particularly those that 
are spiced, and is perfectly greedy of sugar. He 
rejects fresh fish, but is insatiably disposed for that 
which is salt. His sight is not quick, nor his 
vision distinct ; — this is said to be the failing of the 
breed. He is usually disposed to silence and re- 
serve ; but he barks, and that vehemently, when he 
is roused so to express his emotions. But the 
temper, and the unsociable and passionate regard for 
a single person in a household, here described, to the 
exclusion of every one else, is the characteristic of 
every individual of this particular race. 
“ I should not forget to mention that there is a wild 
Dog in Eastern Haiti, very different from the Feral 
Hound of St. Domingo, delineated by Colonel 
Hamilton Smith. This wild dog is called a Xibaro 
{Hibaro), and at all points resembles the Aguara dog 
