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up the trail of the pig, and found him lying in a bil 

 about two miles from the place where we had left him. 

 They thought the best way to polish the boar would be 

 to get into deep water where they would have the advan- 

 tage over him, but they counted without their host : the 

 first volley of clods had been barely delivered than out 

 came " Outram." Of course, every one took to his heels, 

 but one poor unfortunate was soon overtaken and knocked 

 down. The pig soon made short work of him, literally 

 cutting him to pieces ; his companions, seeing how mat- 

 ters had turned, thought only of putting as much distance 

 as they could between themselves and the infuriated boar. 

 Very little help could they have rendered, so they made 

 straight, and as fast as they could, for the village. When 

 the villagers arrived, " Outram " had left the scene of his 

 exploits, leaving his victim dead. I heard afterwards 



from the H , a Police Sub-Inspector, — that when the 



body was sent to Berhampore for post-mortem, no less than 

 twenty-three wounds were found on the man, seven of 

 which would have proved fatal. This was the last heard 

 of " Outram," and I have no doubt he lived for many a 

 day afterwards, as he had only two or three slight wounds 

 on him. 



By a strange coincidence just a year after when hunt- 

 ing over the same ground, Malcolm's spear-head was 

 found lying almost on the very spot where the boar had 

 crunched Bell's topee ; evidently it must have dropped 

 during the scrimmage. 



I think this boar well deserved the appellation of 

 d,p 2 



