The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-09-30

THE THEORY OF THEIR PRE-COI I'M
BAN ORIGIN.


L ne impression That the domestic dog %
the old world has descended from wild
/ species distinct from tine wolf may be- well
/ founIed but in America the evidence tends
to prove that the E,quimau AMI other
/ domestic varieties OF dog, were dom ,sticateI
+ by the aborginos AMI used I,y them I.ng
4 anterior to the discovery of tn c.,lI1iarnt b.
+ the Europeans. tin varietie, in ,u, ton
/ originating from tho grey wolf ar prairie
/ wolf FIRST t. the fisquimau dog
/ From Tia. following extrac' from Fro
! bishcr it appears evideha that the
/ EaquImauX hal the present brood Of do
I moatlc dog long anter iuT To tho year 1874.
/ Frobishor'S account IF the Esquimaux them
selves \, 50 far as we know, the first exLant
and is full AMI characteristic. After lie
scriblng the natives he g,C5 on t. say:
They FRANKIE or Eesr cert;tine dogs not
much vnliko wives, which they yoke to-
either. as we DO oxen and hor-eS, T. "A ~I,rI
or traIle; an! carry their nee aries over
the yce and snow from place to place; as
tho CAPTIVE. whom We haue, ulado perfect
signes. Aud when those dog are not ant
for tie vsa; or when with htsi.el. they
are constrained for lack of other vic;uals
they cato them, 5" that they are as neelfu
for them in respect 81 their bignco n our
oxen are for vs..
Confirmatory OF the theory OF the pre-
Columbian origin of the Indian dos may be
citcI tho following extract from IIakluyt's
Breton island: Here divers o. our
men went on land upon tho very cape
where at their Grivall they found the spittcs
of Oke Of the saw g"s which la roasted
meate little before. AMI as they viovt.
the countrey they save divers betsta7. aud
foules, n blacka Goxe-, deere, otter. Great
fOuleN with rcd leggos pong ~vn anI ccr-
tain Others ThereGron nine or t,.ItEe of his
follows running right vp over the bu,ho,
with great agilitIe an swftnnse came to-
ward y with white >taues in their lands |
like halle pixies, and tEoir drggo5 Of colour |
blacks not o big g as grayhntr, 10 fol
lowed them at the ho-!e-; but wee retired |
Vnto our Hoate without any hurt at all r.
ccived "
1t is probably this variety the homes IF |
which have Leen found hy DR.. J WynIan. |
IN the shell heaps of Casco bay, Ne
The presence Of the bones IF the dog |
might be accJuntaI for on the score If its |
being dome, ticated animal but the fact
that they were not only found mingled with /
those of the edible kinds. but like t!lsln wer.
brof on up, suggests the proba biity Of their
having been used food. We have not
seen it mentioned, however, by any OF the
earlier writers, that such was the case alone,
the coast, though it appears t. have been
otherwise with regard to some Of the IN
terror tribes, as the Huron1. With them
gamo being scare, venispn WI; n luxury
!
high esteem"
IL is possible that the Newfoundland dor
was Indigenous on that island, and also an
of-hoot of the grey wolf ailie.l la the + qai-
mau. In their "NewfouudllnI," Mra,r.
Hatton AMI Harvey say that there are TOW
fine specimens Of tho worI i-ranowned New
foundland dog t. Le met vita now in the
islani from which it derived it, name.
The origin of this lin. breed is lost in OH
security 1t is doubtful whether the ahori-
gines possessed the dog 1t all; and it i,
highly improbable that tho NaWiuun Hand
dog IS indigenous. Some happy cIo,,in., OF
breeds may have produced it here The Old
settlers say that tho ancient genuine
breed consisted OF dog about twenty
SIX inci'e' high, with L!ack ti,heI
body, Groy muzae anl cray or
white stockinSeI is5s, with deer
claws behinl' Il /. nov generally, |
admitted that there ar, two di- tinct types
Of tho Newfoundland dog, ons considerably |
larger than the other ana rcckone,I rs the |
true breed; tho other beng named the Lab
rad"r, or st John, or Le-s,r NawfounI /
land. The latter i chiefly found IN LaLra-
Tor, and specimens are also to b. met with
IN Newfoundland"
Regarding the dog, Of the Mexican In
tlans, Nadailac says IN. his "Prehistoric
America The European dog our faith
ful companion, also appears to have been a
stranger t. them. His place was very in
adequately filled by the coyote, or prairie
Wolf, which they kept i'll captivity and had
ucceeded in tanning to a certain extent
In recent visit to Mexico. not only along
he railroads, but in the cour-e of a stage
Idle of about 500 miles through provincial
dexico, from S9Itillo To San Miguel we
we're struck hy the resemblance OF the dogs !
o the coyote; there can be Iittls doubt but [
hat they are the descendants Of a race
which spranS from the partly tanned coyote
# the ancient Mexican Indians At one
village, MonteZuma. saw IA hairless or
arb dog, a we supposed it to lie; similar
ogs are sometimes seen in the United
states
Finally, that thu domestic dog and grey.
; well as the prairie wolf, viii hybridize,
as boon we'll established. DR. Coues has
b'erved by birds between the coyote ami i
site dog on the Upper Missouri. To L
his We may add our own observations made o
Fort ClaSgett. on the upper Mis- :
DurI, III June, 1877 We then were much
ogs about oncampment of Crow Indi- |
rs, aS we'll is he fort; they were of the 4
~ AMI color Of tho coyote. but less hairy
nj with los Lushy tail They were \
luch lac . lately observed in Mexico, y
NJ | have never seen such lo.s ei,ewhere
ire + ''.lor Was "A wiit.-h taWny. like that |
tn. J. fG.iaau L. T.
C4ntirniatory Of these observations is the
'.luwin-s u"te lay j. l. NortiIan in the re-
Ift oi tie .,e"i, s,Isai survey 81 InIiana for T
So: During EXTENDED travel IN western | l.
nited StttaS my experience has been the L.
me a. that re9oriot by DR. C0ues Ii y
tE ~ uia lis uncommon To find o,
'aIr@i Digs a'n"m5 many Of the Ii
e>tern n.d.:,n trtIe-, notably among 81
le Umaiii.as. EannociS, $40 aones, Arapa- -
o Crow md Sous. which 20 one famjI- 81
r with tie -. g, ply>iosnoIny and habits III
the coyote. have avery &ptearauco of II
ood relation hip IT not, IL many cases. this :,
llInal itself IN state of semi IonlaStica- :;
on lie free inter bTeeling Of these AMI
al~ has been so often repeated T. mo by I'd
loroughly reliable autkoritie. and whose II
'portuuftles for observation were annie
at | feel Ilarfsctly xziIIirr 1850. n, n