98 NATURAL HISTORY IN ANECDOTE.

sense of scent. Some of the stories told of the extraordinary
journeys made by dogs, apparently without anything to guide
them but their natural instinct, seem almost incredible.

Captain Brown tells a story of a gentleman of Glasgow, who
was unfortunately drowned in the river Oder while bathing
during a continental tour. A Newfoundland dog, who was his
travelling companion, made every effort to save him, but
failing to do so, found his way either to Frankfort, or Ham-
burgh, where he went on board a vessel bound for England,
from which he landed somewhere on the coast, finding his
way ultimately to the person from whom he had been origin-
ally purchased, and who lived near Holyrood palace.

Another dog who, on arriving in England from Newfound-
land, was given to a gentleman in London, was sent by him
to a friend in Scotland, by water. The dog, however, made
his escape and found his way back to his old master at Fish
Street Hill, London, though as Mr. Jesse puts it “in so
exhausted a state that he could only express his joy at seeing
his master and then die.”

This instinct seems to be common to many varieties of
dogs. Captain Brown tells of a Dalmatian or coach-dog
which Lord Maynard lost in France, and which he found
at his house on his return to England, though how it
had got there he never could trace. It is not necessary,
says Captain Brown, that the dog shall have previously
travelled the ground by which it returns. A person who
went by sea from Aberdeen to Leith, lost his dog at the
latter place, and found it on his return at Aberdeen. It must
have travelled over a country unknown to it, and have crossed
the firths of Forth and Tay.

Illustrations might easily be multiplied. Mr. Jesse tells of
a dog which was presented to the Captain of a collier by a
gentleman residing at Wivenhoe in Essex and which on being
landed at Sunderland found its way back to its old master,
and also of a spaniel belonging to Colonel Hardy which after