Big Game Shooting 



good luck to get to ground, there is a cloud of dust 

 at the mouth of his hole, and one just sees him 

 turning round and going down backwards way on 

 in the middle of it. I take it he does that so that 

 any unfortunate pig, on being violently pursued, 

 may be ousted at once by a prod of his tushes. 

 It might be stuffy for more than one, or again he 

 might be thinking of his family affairs ; but both 

 views of him make one laugh immoderately on 

 first acquaintance. 



Pig-sticking has been started in Nairobi with 

 some small success, and I have frequently ridden 

 them in Somaliland, though usually there with a 

 native spear, which lent excitement. On one's 

 closing with them on horseback, they " come in ' 

 all right, but not ki the determined way an Indian 

 pig does. They may not have been brought up 

 to a good charge, as the Indian pig has been, by 

 generations of pig-sticking. 



On being wounded with a rifle they may charge 

 at times. I had one charge me in thick bush 

 once, and it was quite unpleasant, as I was upset. 

 He was hit high up and too far back, and I had 

 managed to get him again in the act of charging, 

 so he did no damage beyond a tear or two to my 

 clothing. 



They are found almost anywhere in grass and 

 scrub jungle, so it would be useless to give special 

 localities. 



Eight and a half inches is a good tusk for a boar. 



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