ON SPECIFIC FEVEll OF PIORSES, OXEN, &c. 535 
hounds on ship-board, or afterwards in the kennel. The gentle¬ 
men who, from time to time, had the management, were 
sportsmen, and took the greatest individual interest in it. No 
expense has ever been spared. The kennels have been constructed 
and reconstructed, and the locality more than once changed. 
The kennels were originally on the English plan, and after¬ 
wards of very open bamboo lattice-work. Experience, however, 
has convinced me, that the kennel should have been removable 
as the ground became contaminated, or the hounds have been 
kept separate by the members at their different houses. This, 
however, would have been considered infra dig., as the style of 
modern fox-hunting is the object. Condition, too, could not 
have been so well attained. Although carried to cover in vans 
(somewhat too small), and the work only from daybreak until 
just after the sun becomes powerful, the fatigue is excessive, as 
hunting is continued throughout the hot season, until the rains 
plant the horses. Debility, however, is not to be overcome even 
by the high blood and courage of the British fox-hound. 
I hunted with these hounds for two seasons, and occasionally 
attended the sick dogs. I therefore had every opportunity of 
becoming perfectly aware of the curative effects of the treatment 
adopted; and I must candidly say, that it was very unsatisfac¬ 
tory. When once a dog has had this fever, if there remains the 
slightest affection of the lungs or liver, although the animal may 
recover flesh, condition is seldom attainable, as the very means 
necessary for this become an exciting cause of secondary symptoms 
of disease of these organs. 
So convinced were the members of the hunt of this, that the 
hounds were sold to go to the upper provinces, where, from the 
circumstance of difference of climate, and being kept in smaller 
numbers, the exciting causes were not so great, and the dogs 
lived for a time, but to be carried off ultimately as certainly as 
ever Mr. BakewelPs rotten ewes were. 
I have seen gentlemen give 300 rupees each, for greyhounds 
to breed from. While the dogs were allowed to run about the 
house or tent as they pleased, they did well; but when their 
numbers were increased, and the old ones had whelps and were 
kennelled, they were all carried off by this fever. These dogs 
most likely imbibed the fever from congregation on board of 
ship; the secondary symptoms carried the old ones off—the 
primary fever, or its immediate results, destroyed the young 
ones. 
There is very considerable analogy between the origin of this 
fever on board of ship in these dogs, and the case of the sheep 
already mentioned in the Bicanerc desert. There is on board of 
