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Show ANNOTATIONS AND ADDITIONS. 99 the Peruvians had dogs, "perros gozques." He calls the native dog, Allco: it is called at present in the Quichua language, to distinguish him from the European dog, "Runa-allco," "Indian dog" (dog of the inhabitants of the country). The hairy Runa-allco seems to be a mere variety of the shepherd's dog. He is small, with long hair (usually of an ochry yellow, with white and brown spots), and with upright, sharp-pointed ears. He barks a great deal, but seldom bites the natives, however disposed to be mischievous to the whites. When the Inca Pachacutec, in his religious wars with the Indians of Xuuxa and Huanca (the present valley of Huancaya and Jauja), conquered them, and converted them forcibly to the worship of the sun, he found them paying divine honors to dogs. Priests blew on the skulls of dogs, and the worshippers ate their flesh. (Garcilasso de la Vega, Comentarios Reales, p. i. p. 184.) This veneration of dogs in the valley of Huancaya is probably the reason why skulls, and even entire mummies of dogs, have been found in the Huacas, or Peruvian graves belonging to the earliest epoch. Von Tschudi, the author of an excellent Fauna Peruviana, has examined these skulls, and believes them to belong to a peculiar species of dog, which he calls Canis ingre, and which is different from the European dog. The Huancas are still called derisively by the inhabitants of other provinces, "dog·eaters." Among the natives of the Rocky Mountains, cooked dog's flesh is set before strangers as a feast of honor. Near Fort Laramie (one of the stations of the Hudson's Bay Company for the fur trade with the Sioux Indians), Captain Fremont attended a feast of this description. (Fremont's Exploring Expedition, 1845, p. 42.) The Peruvian dogs had a singular part to play in eclipses of the moon: they were beaten until the eclipse was over. The Mexican Techichi, a variety of the common dog, which latter was called in Anahuac Chichi, was completely dumb. Techichi signifies literally stone-dog, from the Aztec, Tetl, a stone. The Techichi was eaten according to the old Chinese fashion. The Spaniards found this food, before the introduction of European cattle, so indispensable, that almost the whole race was gradually extirpaJed. (Clavigero, Storia antica del M:essico, 1780, t. i. p. 73.) Buffon confounds the Techicbi with the Koupara of Guiana. (T. xv. p. 155.) The latter |