258 HOG HUNTING. 



greyhounds of the Khorassan breed. In re- 

 turning to camp Meer Fyze Mahomed's horse 

 came down and rolled over him, whereby he 

 was severely bruised, but providentially no 

 bones were broken. Thus ended my first day's 

 hunting in Sindh, which, to my thinking, was 

 very poor sport, after my long apprenticeship 

 in the tiger jungles of the Deckkun and Berar, 

 and the noble hog-hunting in the Nagpore 

 country. I suggested to the Meer that it 

 would be well to procure some hog spears and 

 ride the hogs as they crossed the plain ; but he 

 did not seem to approve the suggestion, as the 

 exercise is too violent to suit the habits of most 

 eastern princes, who consult their ease as far as 

 possible in all ways. 



The wild hogs of Sindh are hardly, I think, so 

 large, though far more fierce, than those of 

 India, for it is no uncommom thing for a boar 

 to turn and attack his pursuers, and I heard at 

 Khyrpoor of the Dawk Sowar ^ or Postman, being 

 stopped by a wild boar, which pursued him at 

 full speed to the station for changing horses. 

 A boar, when in wind, will sometimes run three 

 miles at a pace that will keep a good Arab at 

 his best. A hog should always be forced to his 



