The Bloodhound, 7 



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 

 once laid down their arms and the war came to 

 an end. 



Ho\vever, long before Sedgemoor and the time of 

 the border forays the bloodhound w^as used in this 

 country. Gratius Faliscus, and Strabo, about the 

 Christian era, mentioned the importation of dogs of 

 this kind from Britain to Gaul, and Oppian im- 

 mortalises in verse the Agassaeos for their exquisite 

 power of scent and great courage. These big dogs 

 were obtained from Britain for the ignoble purposes 

 of war. Afterwards they came to be used for 

 hunting the stag and other large game, and from 

 them are no doubt descended many of the fine 

 hounds still to be found in the possession of our 

 Gallic cousins. 



Dame Juliana Berners, writing in her ''Book of St. 

 Albans,'' published in i486, does not appear to 

 mention the bloodhound, or sleuth hound, but the 

 Lemor or Lymer was probably the same dog, and so 

 called because it ran the line of scent, and not, as it 

 has been asserted, because it was the custom to run 

 it in a leash. Dr. Keyes (1570), mentions blood- 

 hounds as having lips of large size, and ears of no 

 small length. The learned doctor tells us how these 



