Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Cyprus is afflicted with a plague of dogs, which, it is stated, are even more numerous and useless than they are in Constantinople. They infest the various towns and their outskirts, and are at the present time a source not only of annoyance but of danger, for the cattle disease which, although diminishing, still prevails in the island, is said to be propagated from village to village by them. They scratch up and feast upon the buried carcasses of the animals that have died of the disease or have been slaughtered on account of it, and afterward drink at the troughs where the cattle are watered.