QUADRUPEDS, 
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few are now and then conveyed to the country by 
the Danes, who are obliged at the same time to 
bring with them a sufficient supply of necessary 
food for their support, of which the island fur¬ 
nishes none. 
Indigenous quadrupeds, likewise, as has al¬ 
ready been remarked in a previous part of my 
journal, are wholly wanting. 
Among the domestic animals in the island, the 
dog must not be passed by in silence, as being of 
the greatest importance to the natives, in collecting 
the sheep scattered over the mountains, and driv¬ 
ing them to the milking places. The Fiaar- 
huundar of the Icelanders (Cams islandicus of 
some authors), if it has not sufficient characters 
to rank it as a species, is at least a very strongly 
marked variety; differing in many points from 
any of the dogs I have elsewhere seen, but most 
nearly approaching the figures and descriptions 
that are given us of the Greenland dog. It is 
rather below the middle size, well proportioned 
<c From their fond lord they both are flown. 
Perhaps eternally are gone. 
f<r Though Huginn's loss I should deplore, 
“ Yet Muninn's would afflict me more.” 
Pennant's Arctic Zoology , Introduction , p. 1% 
