48 SPORT IN ABYSSINIA. 



of a wonderful amount of our preserved provisions 

 with great gusto. 



Jan. 8. — This morning I went out to look for 

 pigs. I was wandering about the jungle, when I saw 

 an animal on some rising ground, quite the size 

 of a donkey. Whether it was the position of the 

 ground or that the old boar — for such it turned out 

 to be — was very large, I do not know ; at all events 

 I mistook him for a donkey, and did not fire. He 

 whisked up his little curly tail and trotted off, followed 

 by his spouses and some squeakers. I ran up, but 

 they were soon lost in the thick bushes. Naturally, 

 I was dreadfully annoyed, and resolved to let fly at 

 everything in future. 



I saw no end of guinea-fowl, but did not fire, being 

 on the look-out for larger game. After wandering 

 about for an hour or so, I came to the little vale in 

 which the cattle station was, the scene of my adven- 

 ture of the night before. 



An old sow and two squeakers were there, enjoying 

 the green grass. I came on them rather suddenly, and 

 the squeakers trotted off, but as the old sow moved 

 after them, I broke her back with a ball from my little 

 i6-bore Purdey ; she was a very old lady, with good 

 tusks. Both the boars and sows in this part of the world 

 have fine tusks ; the boars' tusks only differing by 

 being larger. She died very game ; and as I twice drove 



