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THE AFRICAN BLOODHOUND. 87 
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qualities of mind in any degree comparable to the abso- 
lute subserviency, the undeviating attachment, the sub- 
missive docility, and the acute intelligence, which these 
invaluable animals almost spontaneously manifest, when 
placed in circumstances favourable to their develope- 
ment. 
So much has been written by authors of every descrip- 
tion, from the earliest ages down to the present time, 
upon every point connected with their history and habits, 
and the space which we could devote to their illustration 
in the present volume is so small, that we choose rather 
not to enter at all upon the subject than to treat of it in 
the very abrupt and imperfect manner to which we 
should necessarily be restricted. It only remains there- 
fore to add a few observations relative to the extremely 
beautiful leash of hounds which are figured at the head 
of the present article, before passing to the consideration 
of the remaining species of the group which are at pre- 
sent contained in the Menagerie. 
These are two males and one female, belonging to the 
most elegant as well as the most intelligent variety of 
the species, that to which Linnzus, on account of the 
high degree to which the latter quality was carried in 
them, gave par excellence the epithet of sagar. They 
were presented by Major, now Colonel Denham, on his 
return from the most successful expedition that has 
perhaps ever been made into the evil-omened regions of 
Central Africa, from whence they were brought by that 
gallant traveller, who also gave Mr. Cops the following 
account of their qualifications for the chase. He had 
repeatedly, he said, made use of them in hunting the 
Gazelle, in their pursuit of which he had observed that 
