THE HARE INDIAN DOG--Its Characters, Disposition, &c.--THE ESKIMO DOG--The Dependence of the Greenlanders on its Existence--The Probability of its Speedy Extinction--Its Characters and Savage Disposition--Its Uses--DOMESTIC DOGS OF OTHER SAVAGE TRIBES--African Breeds--South American Breeds--THE DALMATIAN DOG--THE GREYHOUND--THE SCOTCH GREYHOUND--THE DEERHOUND--THE TURKISH GREYHOUND--THE GRECIAN GREYHOUND--THE PERSIAN GREYHOUND--THE ITALIAN GREYHOUND--THE COCKER--THE SPRINGER--THE KING CHARLES’S SPANIEL--THE BLENHEIM SPANIEL--THE CHINESE PUG-DOG--THE WATER-SPANIEL--THE POODLE--THE MALTESE DOG--THE LION-DOG--THE TURKISH DOG--THE ST. BERNARD DOG--THE NEWFOUNDLAND DOG--THE SHEEP-DOG--THE POMERANIAN DOG--THE CUR--THE LURCHER--THE BEAGLE--THE HARRIER--THE FOXHOUND--THE STAGHOUND--THE BLOODHOUND--THE SETTER--THE POINTER--THE RETRIEVER--THE OTTER-HOUND--THE TURNSPIT--THE DACHSHOUND--THE BULL-DOG--THE BULL-TERRIER--THE MASTIFF--THE CUBAN MASTIFF--THE TIBET DOG--THE ENGLISH TERRIER--THE SCOTCH TERRIER--PARIAH DOGS--THE INDIAN WILD DOG--THE DINGO. Not only has civilised man his endless breeds of Dogs, but nearly every savage tribe of any degree of intelligence has, to a greater or less degree, succeeded in producing a race exhibiting well-marked characters, useful to them as a guardian of flocks or a beast of burden. Then, in many parts of the world there are to be found troops of Dogs which have become wild, though not sufficiently so to be actually dangerous, and which act as scavengers in those countries which, like Turkey, are not blessed with a particularly stringent code of sanitary regulations. We shall first consider the Dogs kept by savages. THE HARE INDIAN DOG. This interesting variety (see figure on p. 104) is found only in North America, in the region of the Great Bear Lake and the Mackenzie River, where it is kept as a Hunting-dog by the Hare Indians and one or two other tribes. As we mentioned above, it deserves great interest from the fact that it closely resembles the Prairie-wolf, from which it is very probably descended.