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nimies at a place where the dtie of Tours is prefently fituate, 

 and there they gaue battaile, in the whiche Turmis Cofine to 

 Brutus^ or as feme Chronicles faye, Turnus the eldeft fonne 

 of Brutus was flayne, and in remembraunce of him the fayde 

 Citie was buylte, and by the name of Turnus was called 

 Tours, 



I haue thought good to recoumpte this hiftorie, that men 

 may thereby vnderftande, that it is long fince houndes haue 

 bin vfed in Bretaigne^ and I thinke certainly, that thefe Troi- 

 ans were the firft which brought the race of houndes into this 

 countrie. For I finde no hiftorie whiche maketh mention of 

 longer continuaunce than that doth, and it is a thing mofte 

 certaine, that the greateft parte of the races of houndes whiche 

 are in Fraunce, and other cuntries adioyning, did come from 

 the countrie of Bretaigne^ excepting the race of white hounds, 

 the whiche I thinke to be come from Barbary, For being fome- 

 tymes at Rochell^ I haue enquired of manye Pylottes and 

 mariners, and amongefl others I enquired of an olde man 

 named Alfonce^ who had oftentymes bene in the Courte of 

 a Barbarian King called the Doncherib^ whiche vfed muche 

 hunting, and principallie in hunting the Raynedeare at 

 force: and this olde man tolde mee, that all the houndes of 

 his kennell were whyte, and that all the dogges of that coun- 

 trie were fuch alfo. And furely 1 thinke in deede that f white 

 dogges are comme out of the whotte countries, forafmuche 

 as they gyue not ouer their chace howe hotte fo euer it 

 bee, whereas other dogges doe not holde out fo in heate. 

 Fkcebus doeth alfo agree with this opinion, faying, that hee 

 hath bene in Mauritanye^ otherwife called Barbaric^ where- 

 as hee hathe feene the Raynedeare kylled at force with 

 dogges which they call Baux^ which gyue not ouer their chace 

 for any heate that is. Wherevpon myne opinion is, that 

 the Race of whyte dogges is come of thofe dogges called 

 Baux of Barbaric^ of the whiche Vkabus doeth fpeake. I 

 wyll fette downc none other thing of the Antiquitie of 



houndes. 



