26 REMINISCENCES OF PIG-STICKING. 



went in to the bamboo clump. At first they could not see 

 anything, as the pig was lying in a ditch. No sooner, 

 however, the boar saw the men than he made straight 

 for them ; the first man hit the pig over the head with 

 a stick, but the next moment he was knocked over and 

 cut up fearfully ; but though none of the wounds were 

 mortal, still he was crippled for life. The man's com- 

 panion, on seeing the pig, had at first gone up a bam- 

 boo ; but, when he saw his friend being mauled, he very 

 pluckily came down the bamboo to the rescue, and very 

 luckily for him he tumbled into a hole. The pig charg- 

 ed, but not seeing the man he went right over him, and 

 the only wound the man got was a rather nasty cut in 

 the face from the pig's hoofs as he passed on top of him. 

 The usual dustoor of boxls and Dare munus alicui very 

 soon satisfied the wounded men, only if the one who 

 had been badly cut had gone to hospital, instead of stay- 

 ing at home and being treated by the village quacks, he 

 might have been saved from being a cripple. 



After men and beasts had refreshed themselves, a 

 move was made towards a nice khor or grass field, which 

 I had induced the men not to cut, promising two rupees 

 for every boar that broke out of it — the grass was about 

 three-quarters mile long and about two to three hundred 

 yards wide. A hit on either side made the place perfect. 

 Several blind ditches and holes kept the riders outside. 

 A line was made, and the twelve elephants and some 

 fifty coolies which we had was more than ample to beat 

 it. The line was to beat from north to south, the riders 



