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 in 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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