BOOK VIII. Lxi. 147-150 



carry them in their arms sniffing at the breezes 

 and scents and pointing their muzzles towards 

 cover. 



The Indians want hounds to be sired by tigers, vogserossed 

 and at the breedinfj season thev tie up bitches in the "''.'' ""''^ 



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woods for this purpose. They think that the nrst 

 and second htters are too fierce and they only rear 

 the third one. Similarly the Gauls breed hounds 

 from wolves ; each of their packs has one of the 

 dogs as leader and guide ; the pack accompanies 

 this leader in the hunt and pays it obedience ; for 

 dogs actually exercise authority among themselves. 

 It is known that the dogs by the Nile lap up water 

 from the river as they run, so as not to give the 

 greed of the crocodiles its chance. When Alexander a famous 

 the Great was on his way to India, the king of Albania '"""^- 

 had presented him with one dog of unusually large 

 size ; Alexander was dehghted by its appearance, 

 and gave orders for bears and then boars and finally 

 hinds to be let slip — the hound lying contemptuously 

 motionless, This slackness on the part of so vast an 

 animal annoyed the generous spirit of the Emperor, 

 who ordered it to be destroyed. Report carried 

 news of this to the king ; and accordingly sending 

 a second hound he added a message that Alexander 

 should not desire to test it on small game but on a 

 hon or an elephant ; he had only possessed two of 

 the breed and if this one was destroyed there would 

 be none left. Alexander did not put ofF the trial, 

 and forthwith saw a hon crushed. Afterwards he 

 ordered an elephant to be brought in, and no other 

 show ever gave him more dehght : for the dog's 

 hair bristled all over his body and it first gave a 

 vast thunderous bark, then kept leaping up and 



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