28 THE MASTIFF TYPE. 



He states that this appears to be the breed figured in the 

 temples of Ceylon, whither the race may have been brought 

 by Arabian navigators. 



In Stanley's African expedition he heard of vast dogs used 

 for the purposes of war by the natives. There appeared in 

 The Daily Telegraph of August 10, 1876, page 3, col. 5, 

 mention that " On the shores of the Victoria in Usukuma he 

 heard of a people far north possessing very large dogs of such 

 fierce nature that they were often taken to fight against the 

 enemies of their masters." These people he subsequently ascer- 

 ained to be the Wakedi, a tribe living north of Usoga. In the 

 same issue page 3, col. 6, " Usongora is a great salt field, it is 

 rom all accounts a very land of wonders," among other things 

 he mentions a breed of very large dogs of extraordinary ferocity. 

 Again in the same paper, issue of Oct. i5th, 1875, P a S e 5' c l- 

 4. " All my men had distinguished themselves, even " Bull" 

 my British bulldog had seized one of the Waturu by the leg 

 and had given him a taste of the power of the sharp canines 

 of the breed. And in col. 6 of the same " I hear strange tales 

 about the countries on the shores of this lake (Victoria) which 

 make me still more eager to start, one territory is said to 

 possess a breed of such large dogs that even my mastiffs are 

 quite small compared to them. One of Stanley's mastiffs 

 was presented to him by the Baroness Burdett Coutts I 

 believe. 



From the sculptor's art we may learn that the true mastiff 

 has always been confined more or less to latitudes 20 to 60 

 north of the equator, and to certain countries. 



Col. H. Smith states that the Takhti Boustan sculptures 

 and Indian carvings, paintings, and manuscripts are destitute 

 of the form of the mastiff. 



