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Following the Equator
Part 2

CHAPTER XIX
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he will not kill all of them.
In that garden I also saw the wild Australian dog--the dingo.

He was a beautiful creature--shapely, graceful, a little wolfish in some of his aspects, but with a most friendly eye and sociable disposition.

The dingo is not an importation; he was present in great force when the whites first came to the continent.

It may be that he is the oldest dog in the universe; his origin, his descent, the place where his ancestors first appeared, are as unknown and as untraceable as are the camel's.
He is the most precious dog in the world, for he does not bark.

But in an evil hour he got to raiding the sheep-runs to appease his hunger, and that sealed his doom.


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