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Identifier: amongcannibalsac1889lumh Title: Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; Year: 1889 (1880s# Authors: Lumholtz, Carl, 1851-1922 Anderson, Rasmus Björn, 1846-1936, tr Subjects: Ethnology Natural history Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons

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Text Appearing Before Image: here than farthersouth in Australia, where natives can be seen followed byten or twelve dogs, which are of different breeds, for thedingoes of the natives quickly mix with the shepherd-dogs,greyhounds, and terriers of the colonists# On Herbert riverthere are rarely more than one or two dingoes in each tribe,and as a rule they are of pure blood# The natives find themas puppies in the hollow trunks of trees, and rear them withgreater care than they bestow on their own children# Thedingo is an important member of the family ; it sleeps in CHAP# XIV THE DINGO 179 the huts and gets plenty to eat, not only of meat, but also offruit# Its master never strikes, but merely threatens it#He caresses it like a child, eats the fleas off it, and thenkisses it on the snout# Though the dingo is treated so well it often runs away,especially in the pairing season, and at such times it neverreturns# Thus it never becomes perfectly domesticated,still is very useful to the natives, for it has a keen scent

Text Appearing After Image: DINGO# and traces every kind of game ; it never barks, and hunts lesswildly than our dogs, but very rapidly, frequently capturingthe game on the run# Sometimes it refuses to go anyfarther, and its owner has then to carry it on his shoulders,a luxury of which it is very fond# The dingo will follownobody else but its owner; this materially increased mydifficulties in finding a dog, for it was useless unless theowner could be persuaded to go with me ; besides, but fewof the dingoes understand hunting the boongary, for whichthey have to be specially trained from the beginning# i8o AMONG CANNIBALS chap# In company with four men I rode across Sea-View Range#On its summit a tribe was said to be encamped owning avery good dog, which I had heard much talked of# I senttwo of my men to the camp with a supply of tobacco, inorder to borrow the dog, but they returned in the eveningminus both dog and tobacco, for the dog had followed itsowner to another camp, and still they had, with their usuallibe

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