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such Dogs, and he received them as a great present, and accepted them gladly and thankfully. And moreover, rewarded
the Indian that gave them with a Princely recompense. The same story Philes also writes. But Diodorus Siculus and
Strabo, say that Sopithes a King, gave Alexander an hundred and fifty of these Dogs, all very huge and strong, and
usually coupling with Tygres. And Pollux writes the same. And Plutark describes the Indian-dog, and his fight before
Alexander, as it is before related. Pliny writes, that the King of Albania gave Alexander a great Dog, wherewith he
was much delighted. But when he brought the Dog, first bears, then Boars, and then Deer, and saw he would not
touch them, being much offended that so great a body should have so little courage, he caused him to be killed. The
King that gave him, hearing this, sent him another, and withal charged the messenger, that he should not be tried in
small matches, but either with a Lion or an Elephant. So then, Alexander caused a Lion to be set before him, and
presently the Dog killed him. Afterward he tried him with an Elephant, and the Dog bristled and barked at him, and
assaulted him so artificially every way, till the Elephant was giddy with turning about, and so fell down and was killed.
Gratius writes of this kind of Dog, thus generated of a Bitch and a Tyger. There is also another kind of Dog,
"Generated of a Lion ."
And these are strong Dogs, and good hunters. Pollux says, that Arcadian dogs first came of a Dog and a Lion, and
called Lion-Dogs. And Coelius writes the same. And Oppianus commends the Arcadian dogs, and those of Tegea,
which is a town of Acadia. This also
"A strong and swift Dog gendered of a kind of Wolf called Thos,"
which, as Aristotle writes, is in all his entrails like a Wolf's, and is a strong beast, swift, and is wont to encounter a
Lion. Pliny says, it is kind of Wolf , Hesychius says, it is like a Wolf , Herodotus, that it is gendered in Africa. Solinus
called them Ethiopian Wolves. Nearchus calls these beasts Tygres, and says there be diverse kinds of them.
Wherefore Gratius says, that Dogs generated of these Thoes, are strong, and fit to hunt, and calls them half-savage,
as coming of a tame Dog, and a savage kind of Wolf . There is also a,
"Dog called Crocuta, gendered of a Dog and a Wolf."
Pliny says, that these Dogs break all things with their teeth, and presently devour them. As the Indians join Tygres,
so do the Gauls join Wolves and Dogs together, every herd of wolves there, has a Dog for their ring-leader. In the
Country of Cyrene in Libya, Wolves do couple with Dogs, as Aristotle and Pollux write. Galen, in his book concerning
the use of parts, writes, that a Bitch and may conceive by a He-wolf , and so the She-wolf by a Dog, and retain each
others seed, and ripen it to the bringing forth of both kinds. Diodorus says, that the Dog which the Ethiopian calls
Crocuta, is a compound of the nature of a Dog and Wolf . When Niphus was hunting, one of his Dogs eagerly pursued
a she-wolf, and overtaking her, began to line her, changing his fierceness into lust. Albertus says, that the great Dog
called a mastiff, is gendered of a Dog and a Wolf . I myself saw at Rome, a Dog generated of a Wolf , and at Naples, a
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