THE BIG GAME OF AFRICA 



However, it soon began to encircle a large bush in the 

 vicinity at a rapid pace. Six or seven times at least it ran 

 madly round and round that bush, until it suddenly turned 

 over and made several somersaults before it stretched 

 itself out on the ground and expired. When cutting the 

 animal up, I found that the bullet had pierced both lungs, 

 and yet the animal was able to run for all those seconds at 

 such a speed before it succumbed! The meat of old wart 

 hogs has a very strong and disagreeable taste, but the 

 chops of young ones are quite palatable even to the white 

 man. Most of the natives, however, refuse to eat the meat 

 of either bush pig or wart hog, and all orthodox Moham- 

 medans cannot even be induced to touch the animal, being 

 forbidden by their Koran to have anything to do with 

 representatives of the pig family. 



