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outside the mouth, and lo inches across from tip to tip. He had 

 seen nae and sought refuge in an ahnost impenetrable thicket of 

 thorn bushes. I took a position on one side, and sending the 

 men into the bushes from the other drove him out. He presented 

 a grand appearance as he came, trotting majestically along, with- 

 out the slightest evidence of fear, his tail held upright with the 

 tassel pendent forward, and his mane, very long and thick, raised 

 above the neck and back. He passed within 6 feet of where I 

 stood, and only the click of the hammer answered the pull of 

 the trigger, as I threw the muzzle of my rifle towards him. My 

 shikari had forgotten to throw a shell into the chamber before 

 handing me the weapon. Of course the hog disappeared at once 

 among the bushes, and we were obliged to track him a long way 

 before I got a snap shot at him about loo yards off and broke 

 his back. He was the personification of rage when I walked up 

 to him, champing his tushes until the foam flew from his mouth, 

 as he made frantic but unavailing efforts to reach me. Another 

 bullet laid him lifeless. 



We always seemed to see these pigs when they were running, 

 and never when going quietly about their business, the very open 

 condition of the country generally permitting them to see us before 

 we could them. They appeared to be somewhat independent of 

 water, for we met them in the middle of the Haud where cer- 

 • tainly the nearest water-hole must have been 50 miles away, too 

 far one might suppose for them to seek daily. The Wart-Hog 

 is a fine looking animal for a pig, the long mane and rather 

 majestic carriage of the body, especially in the full grown males, 

 adding greatly to their appearance. They have the courage of 

 their race, and a wounded Wart-Hog at close quarters would be 

 a dangerous antagonist, as he could inflict fearful injuries with 

 his formidable tushes. It is the only species found in this part 

 of Eastern Africa. It obtains its trivial name from the peculiar 

 wart-like excrescences upon various parts of the head. These 

 are very prominent and usually pointed and produce a very 

 peculiar effect, not however one of beaut3^ The natives being 

 Mussulmans will not touch a hog, or anything that has come in 

 contact with one, so the European who desires to preserve one of 

 these animals, either as a trophy or for scientific purposes, must 

 do all the work himself, while his followers squat around him, 

 criticize his skill, or the lack of it, and make comments about him 

 generally. When the members of a litter arrive at an age between 

 one and two years, they leave the parents and shift for themselves. 



