WILD BOAR HUNTING 281 



A writer in the Overland Monthly of May, 1893, 

 gives an interesting account of the shearing season at 

 Santa Rosa Island, and in referring to the wild hog 

 says: 



"The latter are very numerous and sometimes attack and 

 kill the lambs. They are dangerous things for an unmounted, 

 unarmed man to meet. Many hundreds are shot every year, 

 but it seems difficuh to exterminate them. The foxes are 

 small, hardly larger than a domestic cat, and almost as tame." 



