The Bloodhound. 



interesting to note whether such imprisonment was 

 ever enforced. Whether this was so or not, I have 

 not found any record to show, but it was said that 

 the hounds proved very useful for the purpose for 

 which they were provided. 



The utilisation of bloodhounds in the above 

 manner did not escape the notice of Sir Walter 

 Scott. A King of Scotland, Robert Bruce, threw 

 hounds off his track by wading down stream, and 

 thus without touching the river bank contriving 

 to ensconce himself, squirrel-like, in a tree. The 

 great Wallace, too, was so sorely pressed by sleuth 

 hounds that to save himself he slew a companion 

 whom he suspected, so when the creatures came 

 up, they remained with the dead man whilst the 

 living one escaped. Later the ill-fated Duke of 

 Monmouth, who sought concealment in a ditch, after 

 his defeat by the Royal troops at Sedgemoor, was 

 discovered in his ignoble position by bloodhounds. 

 Happily this was the last battle fought on English 

 ground, and it seems strange that its cause, " King " 

 Monmouth, should be so captured by means of a 

 British hound. In 1795, two hundred bloodhounds 

 were, under British auspices, landed in Jamaica for 

 the purpose of subduing a rising of the Maroons. 

 Fortunately this canine importation struck such 

 terror in the hearts of the rebels that they at 



