The Saluki Or Gazelle Hound Club Claimed

Salukis have turned up in Britain from time to time in the past, but the continuous occupation of this country by Salukis began in 1895 when the Hon. Florence Amherst received a pair of Saluki bitches from the Eastern Desert of Egypt.

Up until the nineteenth century, the Middle East was controlled by the Ottoman Empire, which did not welcome explorers from Western Europe. The culture of the Bedouin tribes altered little over the centuries and neither did their prized hunting hounds, the Salukis, as can be seen by comparing Salukis in Britain in the 20th century with portraits containing Salukis of earlier times, and even representations of hunting hounds from Egypt of 3000BC or earlier.