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a bolt of it, as the place lie had got in was so narrow 

 that he could not turn round to meet the boar. Ander- 

 son had to go for about three hundred yards or so be- 

 fore he got an opening ; and he was trying to get out, 

 when whom should he meet but the pig, who had taken 

 a short cut through the jungle and was also trying to 

 go through the same opening. Of course, there was a 

 collision ; but just as Anderson speared the boar, his 

 horse gave a half kind of rear and saved himself from 

 being cut. We were on the opposite side, and did not 

 know what was going on till we heard Bob shout for 

 beloms: his own spear had been carried away by the pig. 

 When we got round, we found Anderson excited over 

 his adventure, and having got the elephants we took up 

 the trail of the wounded boar. After a short time we 

 found the blood-stained spear but no sign of piggy, 

 who must have gone into some of the thicker and hea- 

 vier jungle about the place. After an hour's hunting 

 we had to give it up as a bad job; and as it was getting 

 late I saw my friends up to Gangadharee Ghat where, 

 wishing them a hearty good-bye, I returned to my own 

 place. 



Evans' horse was left with me, and it took over two 

 months for the wound made by the boar to heal, and he 

 got so timid that he had to be given up as a pig-sticker. 



