[ Thoreau / Cape Cod ]
Late in this work, in the "Provincetown" chapter, occurs the work's only mention of Newfoundland dogs (though the Canadian province is mentioned several other times):
All sailors pause to watch a steamer, and shout in welcome or derision. In one a large Newfoundland dog put his paws on the rail and stood up as high as any of them, and looked as wise. But the skipper, who did not wish to be seen no better employed than a dog, rapped him on the nose and sent him below. Such is human justice! I thought I could hear him making an effective appeal down there from human to divine justice. He must have had much the cleanest breast of the two.
This work is one of five books by Thoreau that were published after his death.