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y had no other; in which case it will constitute the wolf of that country; and that which is domesticated is only the wild dog tamed, without having yet produced a variety, as in some parts of America." 1798. D. Collins, `Account of English Colony in New South Wales,' p. 614 [Vocab.]: "Jungo---Beasts, common name. Tein-go---Din-go. Wor-re-gal---Dog." 1820. W. C. Wentworth, `Description of New South Wales,' p. 62: "The native dog also, which is a species of the wolf, was proved to be fully equal in this respect [sport] to the fox; but as the pack was not sufficiently numerous to kill these animals at once, they always suffered so severely from their bite that at last the members of the hunt were shy in allowing the dogs to follow them." 1834. L. E. Threlkeld, `Australian Grammar,' p. 55: "Tigko---a bitch." 1852. G. C. Mundy, `Our Antipodes `(1855), p. 153: "I have heard that the dingo, warragal or native dog, does not hunt in packs like the wolf and jackal." 1860. William Story, `Victorian Government Prize Essays,' p. 101: "The English hart is so greatly superior, as an animal of chase, to that cunning poultry thief the fox, that I trust Mister Reynard will never be allowed to become an Australian immigrant, and that when the last of the dingoes shall have shared the fate of the last English wolf, Australian Nimrods will resuscitate, at the antipodes of England, the sterling old national sport of hart hunting, conjointly with that of African boks, gazelles, and antelopes, and leave the fox to their English cousins, who cannot have Australian choice." 1872. C. H. Eden, `My Wife and I in Queensland,' p. 103: "In the neighbourhood of Brisbane and other large towns where they have packs, they run the dingoes as you do foxes at home." 1880. Garnet Walch, `Victoria in 1880,' p. 113: "The arms of the Wimmera should be rabbit and dingo, `rampant,' supporting a sun, `or, inflamed.'" 1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 71: "Dingoes, the Australian name for the wild dogs so destructive to sheep. They were . . . neither more nor less than wolves, but more cowardly and not so ferocious, seldom going in large packs. They hunted kangaroos when in numbers, or driven to it by hunger; but usually preferred smaller and more easily obtained prey, as rats, bandicoots, and 'possums." 1890. C. Lumholtz, `Among Cannibals,' p. 38: "On the large stations a man is kept w
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