CHAPTER XIII. 

 An Amphibious Boae. 



Some time about the middle of October, 1881, Fergu- 

 son came over for a couple of days' snipe-shooting, and 

 he also brought some spears with him in case we should 

 be able to get up some pig-sticking. The late flood and 

 heavy rains we had, had made, however, the latter sport 

 almost impossible, so we had to confine ourselves to the 

 more humbler recreation. 



After chota hazaree we found ourselves on a rather 

 good bit of snipe ground, and had already made a very 

 fair bag, when finding the ground rather too soft we 

 moved on to some better ground higher up. On getting 

 to it we found fresh marks of pigs all over the place, 

 so without proceeding any further with our shooting we 

 decided to see, if we could not turn up a pig from a 

 rather heavy piece of geliema close by. We had only 

 some three or four coolies with us, and we sent these in 

 the tall crop with instructions to make as much noise 

 as possible. With the first howl there was a rush, and 

 out jumped a very fine-looking boar ; as he came trot- 

 ting towards me I had nothing to do but to make tracks, 

 and must have covered the next fifty yards or so in an 



