Так называемый "кубинский бладхаунд" (the Cuban Bloodhound, 1881) - помесь английского бладхаунда и мастифа.
"It was not a pure bloodhound and it was not a pure mastiff; but it appeared to be a combination of the two - gaunt, savage, and as large as a small lioness" (ACD. The Hound of the Baskervilles) (Это был голодный, свирепый пес размером с небольшую львицу - не чистопородный бладхаунд и не чистопородный мастиф, но по виду смешение того, и другого. - Перевод: admin).
"This paste in the tin is no doubt the luminous mixture with which the creature was daubed. It was suggested, of course, by the story of the family hell-hound, and by the desire to frighten old Sir Charles to death" (Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902).
© Кадр из фильма "The Hound of the Baskervilles" режиссера David Attwood (United Kingdom, 2002).
«And it was at this moment that there occurred a most strange and unexpected thing. We had risen from our rocks and were turning to go home, having abandoned the hopeless chase. The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc. There, outlined as black as an ebony statue on that shining background, I saw the figure of a man upon the tor» (ACD).
