in hopes to meet with a dog; and as soon as he is so fortunate, he endeavours to allure and bribe him with some crusts of bread, and to bring him as near to the corpse as possibly he can. The nearer the dog approaches it, the nearer they imagine the soul of the deceased must be to the mansions of eternal bliss. If he jumps upon him and seizes the bit of bread--which for that purpose is put into his mouth-it is an incontestable mark or presage of his future felicity but if the dog, on the other hand, cannot be tempted to approach it, but keeps at a distance, it is a melancholy, unpropitious sign, and they almost despair of his happy state. When the dog has performed his part of the ceremony, two Daroos stand in a devout posture, with their hands joined close together, at about one hundred feet distance from the bier whereon the corpse is laid, and repeat with an audible voice a form of prayer of half an hour long, but with such hurry and precipitation that they scarce give themselves sufficient time to breathe."

During an eclipse, the Peruvians are affirmed to have set their dogs howling because they believed them to be special favourites of the moon. The Creek Indians of Alabama. thought an eclipse to be a large dog threatening to devour the sun; and some South American tribes supposed dogs or boars to be gnawing the moon and making it bleed. Greenlanders imagined all foreigners to be descended from a race of dogs.

In India, and it is said also in Southern Africa, the English dog (like his Anglo-Saxon master) deteriorates rapidly both physically and mentally; losing his scent, strength, and

energy. The race could not, probably, be perpetuated for half-a-dozen generations. A great hostility is manifested in Hindostan by the common village native dog against the European dog, whom he detests almost as intensely, but far more openly, than his owner does the European. They cruelly worry every English dog they can set upon with a superior force, and follow his master with most vociferous barkings, to the secret and silent satisfaction, covered by a stolid mask, of the ryot or cooly. The village or Pariah dog of the peninsula of Hindostan varies in size from that of a large pointer or foxhound to that of a turnspit. Their colour is generally a yellow or fawn, but others are black, brown, &c. They are smooth-coated, with, in most cases, sharp, erect, or nearly erect, ears; pointed noses, and tapering tails, which are carried pretty well up and sometimes half-curled over. In fighting, which some of them will do stoutly, they snap, but do not keep their hold. Their companionable qualities, even when brought up from puppyhood by an Englishman, do not by any means equal (so far as the writer has observed), the noble and endearing attributes of the European animal; but they are vigilant watchers and useful servants. The Hindoo agricultural labourer and shepherd is much attached to his dog; and the callousness or thoughtlessness of those young men who, new to the country, and disregardful of the feelings and rights of the population, wantonly shoot or spear these to them frequently annoying foes, but faithful companions of their Asiatic masters, cannot be too strongly condemned. Some of these dogs are models of symmetry, and the free intercourse amongst them tends to create such. "Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis." The fair