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Obviously Sloughis: the typical Sloughi ear of the time on the sand-coloured
dog. According to the Bedouins of the Sinai, brindle Salukis do not occur, so
it must be a Sloughi. © Amherst

By the way, the Hon. Florence Amherst named the origin of her "Shami“ type Salukis
imported from Egypt, with Damascus (El Shams) in Syria as the origin of their ancestors
(Brian Duggan, Saluki, p. 153). She was obviously aware and conscious of the fact that these
feathered Salukis did not originate in Egypt! As Brian Duggan tells us, the Lances received
the Saluki Kataf from Daoud Bey, who had obtained it from the Shammar Bedouins in what
is now Iraq, near the border with Persia (B.D. p.155). This is the same origin as the
feathered Salukis of the Tahawis, of which Luman was one! However, it is important to
point out at this point that this connection between the Shammar and Anazeh and the
Tahawis did not take place until the 19th century.

Another significant difference is that the North African Sloughi is always short-haired. In the
Middle Eastern Saluki there are also short-haired types. But on the Arabian Peninsula,
smooth and feathered types also occur side by side or even in one litter both smooth and
feathered types, as we have read in Dr. John Burchard and as Elizabeth Dawsari confirms.