ITZECUINTEPOTZOTLI, or HUNCH-BACKED Dog, a Mexican quadruped similar to a dog. It is as large as a Maltese dog, the skin of which is varied with white, tawny, and black. Its head is small in proportion to its body, and appears to be joined directly to it on account of the shortness and greatness of its neck; its eyes are pleasing, its ears loose, its nose has a considerable prominence in the middle, and its tail so small, that it hardly reaches half way down its leg; but the characteristic of it is a great hunch which it bears from its neck to its rump. The place where this quadruped most abounds is the kingdom of Michuacan, where it is called Abora.
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