186 THE BLOOD-HOUND. 



were taken out to hunt the stag, the boar and the 

 wolf, and on some occasions, it was equally diffi- 

 cult and dangerous to keep them from attacking 

 each other.* 



THE BLOOD-HOUND. 



Canis sanguinarius. 



PLATE XXXL Fig. 2. 



We have already remarked upon the general history 

 of this race, and therefore proceed to the description 

 of its form and colours. This breed is rare in Eng- 

 land, but still there are a few kept, rather for the 



* Mr. Pennant has noticed some of the hunting estabhsh- 

 ments and laws of the Welsh Princes. The Byzantine Empe- 

 rors, the Tm'kish Sultans, and the German Emperors, all had 

 a regularly organised body of that kind. The English Sove- 

 reigns were most likely nothing short of the state kept by the 

 Kings of France, but it is probable that the Dukes of Bur- 

 gundy, of the house of Valois, exceeded both. Of the number 

 of dogs they kept, we may judge by the oflScers in their house- 

 hold placed on the estabUshment of the chase ; it consisted, 

 in the time of Philip the Good, of one Grand veneur, or great 

 huntsman, with twenty-four attendant huntsmen, a clerk, and 

 twenty-four valets: one hundred and twenty hverymen, sir 

 pages of the hounds, six pages of the greyhounds, twelve under 

 pages of the hounds, six superintendants of the servants of 



