This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...a row of wooden cages, containing a number of large dogs, tremendously fierce, strong, and noisy. They were natives of Thibet; and whether savage by nature, or soured by confinement, they were so impetuously furious, that it was unsafe, unless the keepers were near, even to approach their dens." A few pages further on ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...a row of wooden cages, containing a number of large dogs, tremendously fierce, strong, and noisy. They were natives of Thibet; and whether savage by nature, or soured by confinement, they were so impetuously furious, that it was unsafe, unless the keepers were near, even to approach their dens." A few pages further on our author exhibits them in a much more favourable point of view, as the watchful guardians of the fold. But the most characteristic anecdote respecting them furnished by Captain Turner is thus related. Entering a Thibet village, and " being," he say?, " indolently disposed, and prompted by mere curiosity, I strolled alone among the houses: and seeing every thing still and quiet, I turned into one of the stone enclosures, which serve as folds for cattle. The instant I entered the gate, to my astonishment, up started a huge dog, big enough, if his courage had been equal to his size, to fight a lion. He kept me at bay with a most clamorous bark, and I was a good deal startled at first; but recollecting their cowardly disposition, I stood still; for having once had one in my possession I knew that they were fierce only when they perceived themselves feared. If I had attempted to run, he probably would have flown upon me, and torn me in pieces, before any one could have come to my rescue. Some person came out of the house, and he was soon silenced." Similar accounts of the large size of these dogs, as well as of their ferocity and antipathy to strangers, which seem to be regarded as their uniform characteristics, are given by other writers. Captain Raper, in his Narrative of a Survey for discovering the Sources of the Ganges, speaking of the trade carried on by the natives of Bootan, says, " Dogs are also brought down...
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Add this copy of The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society to cart. $68.07, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Wentworth Press.
