The Coconino weekly sun., 1891-11-19
HUNTED WITH BLooDHouNDs.
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 The popular belief that bloodhounds are fe 'ocious is onJ of the most un- warranted errors, says the Post Dis patch. Su h Is far from being the case. Bloodhounds such as those which will be emp oycd to trace the outlaw and such us are to-day used in the convict camps an pri on5 in many parts of tue Couutr. hlve nono ui tho ferOcity generatiy ascribed to them, Their reputation for savagencSs IS du- rived from what is known as the Gu ban bloodhound oI slave hunting noto- riety, but whici is in reality no blood hound at all. Tue Cuban bloodhound was produced by cross Go wccn Il ma tin d a pI rter, and was intro duced inlo Spanish America by the early settlers.
 Their emp oymcnt in hunting h. dians and slaves iu sasgd tlI ,ir hdtur' ally be!ligerent tom Cr, dntil in time they became the most dangerous of lIlt CdllilC h llu. 'ltNO lilAliArlNS ufi V only t..e name in C nmon with tho British bloodhound, which IS far finer animal. lL has tho Charucteris- tics of the sagacious and swift-foOted dogs. while the Cub"n ar nal pos scSses those of the Iift-fOJtcd and pugnacious. When placed on the trail of man the b % hound will stick tO it under circum tances ol al- most incredible difficulty. but when the quarry is run down will not ut tempt c attack. but val give tongue until the hunters i've I rc tGct that thcSe dogs were put on the trail of the WhiteChauel murderer in the most thickIy populated section of tine east end f London, and that they at tacncd no one, should prove to all that they arc not the terociOus brutcs that they arc commonly supposed to be.
 The fC towing description applies to tho true bloodhound. and it will be seen that there are few points or like Gess to hts Cub tn nameSHf .. The hcad is the chic characteristic Of the breed tho skull is very long, often as much as eleven inches in length, mar row, and very much peaked. The muzZle is deep and sqU9rc, the ears long, very thrn, pendulous and set very low, hanging close t0 the lace and curlcd upon themselves. Tho eyes are hazel in color deep s"t and wi,h triangular lids. The neck is long Yith u great quantity O. loose skin foPming he dewlap. The dngs are from twenty-five to twenty even inches in heIght at tho shoulder The color is usually black and tan. but some animals arc neckcd with white on thc back, givir them the appear ancc of having been Uut In u snow storm.
 The bloodhound iS exceedingly pow erful but as gentle a. | lapnog and al- mo.t us intelligent as a collie. Its wonderful scent far surpaSses that or any other member of the ;anine fam.ly. No foNhound can compete with it in this respect. To track men or animals through country not thickly popnlGtcI is an easy task to inc bloodhound. Once put on a trail it will stick to that particular one, al- though hundre Is may cross it. The tests made in London during the cX- citeneut incident the Wh chapel murders were simply marvellous. The dogs would hunt tho clean boot for miles through tho most fr""Hcntcd thorOughrnrcs an scarcely c'cr hcst- taled as 10 the trail.