September, 1918 
FOREST 
AND S T R E A M 
567 
LONGDOGS AND THEIR QUARRIES 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 519 ) 
linker in the Transvaal, the former the 
nore often, since it was the more plentiful. 
The stembok is a small antelope standing- 
weight, 25 pounds; horns, 5 in. 
12 in. 
Hie dinker weighs 30 to 40 pounds; height, 
>8 in.; horns, 5 jd in. The dinker, or diver, 
s so called because of its habit of disap- 
jearing and re-appearing in low scrub in 
1 succession of bounds when running. 
bellows in action. “Give ’em some water 
out of the canvas bottles in the carts?” 
Gradually they cease their panting, and 
their feet washed and dressed with resin 
ointment, they are put in a conveyance, 
and "taken to the rear” whilst another 
brace of dogs is put into the slips, and the 
next event on the card proceeds. That is 
the sort of trial a longdog is given in 
South Africa, and he 
must be a game one 
to stand the racket. 
T 
'HE Gazelle 
hound, the sa¬ 
luki shami of 
Bedouin Arabs has 
been mentioned in 
this article. He is 
something like the 
Persian longdog in 
appearance, but gen¬ 
erally sandy in color. 
The Hon. Florence 
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Prairie wolf coursing in summer, the run-up 
Both of these small bokken or bucks go 
ke the wind when before a brace of 
3gs. As soon as disturbed the quarry 
off as hard as he can put his pretty 
Dofs to the hard ground. The dogs 
retch out behind 
daughter of the 'late 
Baron Amherst of 
Hackney, herself an 
explorer and excav¬ 
ator of note in the Southern Nile country, 
told the writer there is as much trouble 
to get a Bedouin to sell one of his true- 
bred 
bred 
dogs as there is to obtain a pure- 
Arab horse. The gazelle dog has 
im, the field follow- 
lg in the meantime in 
le usual helter-skel- 
ir fashion of the hell- 
r-leather style of 
donials. Buck and 
agtails disappear in 
cloud of dust and 
s dashing cavalcade 
ds to the confusion 
the placid and 
ar atmosphere. 
1 p e cart s—two- 
leelers with four 
rses driven by a 
1 of Ham and, per- 
ps, whipped by an- 
her Ethiopian fol- 
v at a breakneck 
Longdogs killing their quarry, a coyote 
e, bumping over great ant heaps as hard 
adamant. Now and then a horse may put 
foot in a meerkat hole and then roll- 
I over, his rider strikes the baked earth 
1 he is lucky if he doesn’t break his 
:k or ribs or smash his collar bone! On, 
goes the mad chase, perhaps for three 
four miles in the open under the blue 
Africa’s sky with its swinging vultures 
that cloudless ether! On, on, they go, 
pace being too fast for the best horses. 
! the red collar has turned him and as 
bok comes back he runs into the jaws 
the white collar and his veld days are 
:r. Bleating he dies; he cries like a 
iding child, but the first man up relieves 
agony with a merciful knife across his 
?ant throat! And the dogs? Panting 
stretched out, there they lie. Their 
gues loll out from their red hot jaws, 
ir eyes are glassy—they are spent; they 
done! Their feet are cut to ribbons 
their sides move like the nose of a 
long feet and these are profusely cov¬ 
ered with hair. The broadness of the foot 
is desired, since like that of the camel, 
it keeps them from sinking in the sand. 
It can be well imagined that coursing 
the antelope in the desert is very hard 
work for the dogs, and that is the rea¬ 
son falcons are used to baffle the game 
by flying in the buck’s face, thus confusing 
him and turning him back to the distressed 
dogs. The print that is used as the first 
illustration with this article, I purchased 
in a small shop in London in 1912. It was 
sent to Miss Amherst who is an Egypt¬ 
ologist and collector of repute, to identify. 
She thinks it portrays a Persian scene and. 
of course, of very great interest. There 
are, indeed, some people who will look at 
you very querulously when you state that 
hawks and longdogs are used to run down 
antelope in the old Eastern countries. Yet 
here we have proof that the sport is as old 
as coursing and hawking. 
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