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Seraap, French lithograph of a Tunisian Sloughia, 1884,
in L’Acclimatation Illustrée, Journal spécial des Éleveurs, Bruxelles.
The only color print of a black mantle She is surrounded by her puppies from a
Sloughi known to date. male also imported from Tunisia in the
same conditions, they are barely 1 month
Text accompanying this picture: old, but one will note that the young of this
“The bitch we present today and whose breed are much more advanced than
mother belonged to the General d’Aubigny, those of other breeds.”
was given as a gift to Mr. de Foucault by a
superior officer who could obtain it during *Note: the French conquest of Tunisia took
the Tunisia Campaign*. place in 1881.
She is one of the most beautiful of animal The artist who did this lithograph is
known, she is 3 years old and her weight is unkown.
50 pounds.
Submitted and translated by
M.-Dominique Crapon de Caprona, USA.
