DOG. 
ing to travellers, who fuppofe they have con¬ 
quered the wild beafls, and fecured their journey, 
by driving them away : chace ail fort of animals: 
when they have run down a bead, dill preferve that 
fort of refped to mankind, as to permit part of it 
to be taken from them without growling: attack 
the fheep of the Hottentots , and commit great ra¬ 
vages among them. 
Multitudes wild in S. America : derived from the , 
European race : breed in holes, like rabbet holes *: 
when found young inftantly attach themfelves ** to 
mankind : nor will they ever join themfelves to the 
wild dogs *, or defert their mailers : thefe have not 
forgot to bark j-, as Linnaeus fays: look like a gre- 
houndj: have eredl ears : are very vigilant excel¬ 
lent in the chafe. 
The dog unknown in America before it was in¬ 
troduced there by the Europeans : the Alco of the 
Piruvians , a little animal, which they were fo fond 
of, and kept as a lap dog, too (lightly mentioned 
bv A-Cojia for us to determine what it was : the 
figure given by Hernandez || too rude to form any 
judgement of: the other animal deferibed by Fet - 
nandez is a large fpecies, he calls it Xoloizicuintli y 
the fame name that is given by the firft to the Mexi- 
■* Narrative of the diftreffes of Ifaac Morris , &c. belonging to 
the Waver Storefliip belonging to Cotnmodore Anforis fquadron, p. 27. 
**■ The fame, p. 28. 
+ The fame, p. 37. 
j As appears from a drawing communicated to me by Mr. Grav/- j 
wood, painter, who took it from one that followed an Indian to Su? 
rinam from the inland part of the country. 
|| 466. 
