‘Lions and Ounces’
‘Flowers and Songs of Sorrow #2’: The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of The conquest of Mexico, Miguel Leon-Portilla, pages 31-50, 143-4, Beacon, 1962, 196 pages
To that great and ancient horror that was used to hunt the Neanderthals to extinction, we now turn.
Page 31, gives the first description of these dogs:
“Their dogs are enormous, with flat ears and long dangling tongues. The color of their eyes is burning yellow; their eyes flash fire and shoot off sparks.
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