Chapter 30 No.30

At last the pioneer's boat got off with his mother and the body of the dog, which he intended to send to be embalmed at Kynopolis, the city in which the dog was held sacred above all animals;

[Kynopolis, or in old Egyptian Saka, is now Samalut; Anubis was the

chief divinity worshipped there. Plutarch relates a quarrel between

the inhabitan