PIGS 



I was at the time quietly making my way round a some- 

 what jungly " park," on the look-out for deer or any other 

 game, when I suddenly caught sight of a grey object moving 

 in the undergrowth on the edge of the surrounding forest. 

 Keeping my eye on it I soon saw it was a huge pig, and as 

 soon as it gave me a chance in an open space I fired at it 

 with my .303. On receipt of the shot it rushed out of the 

 jungle across the corner of the little " park " where I stood, 

 giving me a view of a huge splash of blood behind the right 

 shoulder, tore and crashed through some bushes, and finally 

 fell at the foot of a fair-sized tree, from which, in its death 

 agony, it ripped a huge piece of bark with its tusks. Coming 

 up I saw that it was a very large beast, and, examining the 

 head, I found, on the left side, a broken lower tusk, which, 

 as it did not rub against the upper tusk, had caused ah 

 abnormal development of that member, so that on that side 

 I found the afore-mentioned broken lower tusk, and an 

 enormous unworn upper tusk. Turning it over to the 

 other side, I was astonished to find that an exactly opposite 

 condition obtained the upper tusk was entirely missing, 

 and the lower one had gone on growing, unworn and un- 

 sharpened, into about two-thirds of a circle. I took out 

 the whole lot, and am now sorry I did not take the whole 

 skull as a complete trophy. The broken tusk, short and 

 very thick, only measured 6J inches, whilst the abnormal 

 one measured exactly 10 inches on the outside curve. I 

 got it made into an umbrella handle, later on, for one of 

 my sisters, Messrs. Orr of Madras doing the job very neatly 

 by fixing a silver fillet round the tusk at the centre of the 

 curve, and attaching it half-moon fashion, points upwards, 

 to the umbrella stick. 



I wish I had taken body measurements of this boar, as 

 it was by far the largest I had ever seen in the low country, 



