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island. A hundred of these dogs were procured from the 

 ishxnd of Cuba, which were accompanied by a detachment 

 of Spanish sokliers*, (General Walpole then commanded 

 the forces in the island). The fierce enemies of the 

 Maroons soon obliged them to surrender, and the whole 

 of them were sent from Jamaica to Canada. 



In 1803 the Thrapston Association for the prosecution 

 of felons in Northamptonshire procured and trained a 

 bloodhound for the detection of sheepstealers. In 

 order to prove the utility of the dog, a man was des- 

 patched from the spot where a great concourse of people 

 were assembled, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and an 

 hour afterwards the hound on the scent. After a chase 

 of about an hour and a half the hound found him 

 secreted in a tree many miles from the place of starting. 

 " jNIr. John Lawrence says that a servant discharged by 

 a county gentleman broke into his stables by night, and 

 cut off the ears and tail of a favourite hunter. As soon 

 as it was discovered, a bloodhound was brought into the 

 stable, who at once detected the scent of the miscreant, 

 and traced it m.ore than twenty miles. He then stopped 

 at the door of a garret, found the object that he sought 

 for in bed, and would have torn him in pieces had not 

 the huntsman, who followed on a fleet horse, rushed up 

 after him." Colonel Hamilton Smith says that he was 

 favoured with the following interesting notice of this 

 dog from Sir Walter Scott, and which agi-ees exactly 

 with some I have seen bred by Lord Bagot at Blithfield 

 in Staffordshire, and some belonging to his present 

 majesty. "The only slough hound I ever saw was 



* I knew tlie late General AYalpole, and wc had much conversation 

 abont this rebellion of the Maroons, on an occasion of my dining with 

 his father, the Earl of Orford, at his seat in Norfolk. 

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