. The new book of the dog; a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment. Dogs. 474. GROUP OF NORTH AFRICAN GAZELLE HOUNDS. THE PROPERTY OF HERR MICHEL LA FONTIJN. CHAPTER LVI. ORIENTAL GREYHOUNDS. BY THE HON. FLORENCE AMHERST. " L'Orient est le herceau de la Civilisation parce que I'Orient est la patrie du ;—^Toussenel. " No bolder horseman in the youthful hand E'er rode in gay chase of the shy gazelle.'' Edwin Arnold. I. The Slughi, Tazi, or Gazelle Hound.* —The ori
. The new book of the dog; a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment. Dogs. 474. GROUP OF NORTH AFRICAN GAZELLE HOUNDS. THE PROPERTY OF HERR MICHEL LA FONTIJN. CHAPTER LVI. ORIENTAL GREYHOUNDS. BY THE HON. FLORENCE AMHERST. " L'Orient est le herceau de la Civilisation parce que I'Orient est la patrie du ;—^Toussenel. " No bolder horseman in the youthful hand E'er rode in gay chase of the shy gazelle.'' Edwin Arnold. I. The Slughi, Tazi, or Gazelle Hound.* —The original home of the Slughi is difficult to determine. It is shown by the monuments of ancient Egypt that these Gazelle Hounds were kept in that country for hunting purposes, but they seem to have been of foreign importation —both from Asia and Africa. In Persia the Slughi is known as the " Sag-i Tazi " (Arabian Hound), or merely as the "Tazi," which literally means " Arabian" (a term also appHed there to Arab horses), denoting an Arab origin. According to tradition at the present day on the Persian Gulf, it is said that these dogs * Name in A rabic Masc. Fern. ; Slughi (colloquial) ; Saluki (classical). Slughiya (colloquial) ; Silaga (classical). Plural and genus, Salag. Name tn Persian. Tazi. came originally from Syria with the horse. Arabic writers say that the Slughi was only known to the Pharaohs, thanks to the Arabs and to their constant caravans that plied from immemorial times between the two countries. The name Slughi, which means a Grey- hound, bears with it a history recalling the vanished glories of Selukia and the Greek Empire in Syria, and Saluk, in the Yemen, that rich land of mystery and romance. The word originated from these places, once famous for their " Saluki " armour, and " Saluki " hounds. Other districts bearing similar names are quoted as being connected with these hounds. Although now, as formerly,
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