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"Egyptian Gazelle Hound", left, and a "Libyan Desert Saluki", Egypt-Libyan Border, photo by Scudamore Jarvis.
Left dog is apparently a Sloughi (!), right dog is possibly Jarvis's Saluki Tinker, a son of Smiler,
a Saluki of Syrian type, who went with Lt. J.H.C. Lawler of the Sudanese Camel Corps,
who got lost and walked 130 miles back to base camp at Siwa.
In: The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, September 12, 1925.

SLOUGHI TOHUWABOHU - A COMPLETE CONFUSION
BY THOMAS LIEDTKE - GERMANY

This article tries to shed some light on a The Sloughi is for example, no Saluki, just
tangle of conjectures, beliefs, and irrational because the Arabic word for "greyhound" is
claims about the Sloughi's affiliation, used for both breeds. Also, the fact that
ancestry, and kinship. Above all, the Bedouins came to Africa in history is no

demarcation from Saluki is the subject of proof of the assumption that they brought
this study. their greyhounds with them and thus
created today's Sloughi. Even a close
relationship between Saluki and Sloughi can
be ruled out. There is evidence that the
Salukis, explicitly of the Shami type (Syrian
type), did not come to Egypt until the 19th

century.