232 WITH BOAT AND GUN IN THE YANGTZE VALLEY. 



ripped up, but the pig merely shook him off. By this time the drove was close to the 

 bank and I killed one by a shot in the nape of the neck with the wire cartridge. The 

 others, led by a large boar, ran under the bank of the river for a short distance and 

 then across the flat strip of land and over the embankment. As they passed by I 

 fired at the leading boar with the left barrel, but apparently missed him; so, much 

 disheartened, set to work with the aid of my coolie to get the pig I had shot out of 

 the water. While so engaged a countryman came running along the road at the top 

 of the embankment in an excited manner, calling out ' Yeh chu sze liao!' I rushed up 

 to him to make further inquiries, and he pointed out a large boar lying on his side 

 dead, about a hundred yards beyond the road. Fortunately the farmers had recently 

 burnt the grass in this particular spot, so that there was no cover to hide the pig or 

 I never should have discovered that I had shot him, but should have gone away under 

 the mistaken idea that I had missed with my second barrel. As it was I had bagged 

 wild-pig right and left ; and although this incident takes some time to relate, the 

 whole occurrence took place in a very short time. I had great trouble in getting 

 coolies to carry the pigs back to my houseboat, which was about a mile down the 

 river. The large boar weighed about 250 lbs." 



Two Lucky Shots. — On the 23rd December, 1885, at Rocky Point, Mr. Douglas Jones put 

 a Macleod bullet clean through a pig. The bullet was seen to strike the water in a 

 pond about lOO yards beyond the animal, and it passed clean through the body of 

 the pig, which travelled a good 200 yards before it fell dead. 



Tired after a wea^y tramp over the Fungsitan Hills, Mr. O. Schuffenhauer left 

 his companions and was returning disconsolately to his boat one November evening 

 in 1879 when a big boar came out of cover a few paces off. A well-directed shot, 

 with a Macleod bullet, from his cylinder fowling-piece stretched the brute out dead. 



First-rate Sport. — Mr. Armour of the I.M.C. service in 1881, near Tatung, shot 13 pigs 



during a ten days' absence from Wuhu.. 

 On Christmas Day, 1907, Mr. Rasmussen of the I. M. Customs in company with a friend 



bagged 4 pigs, and alone on Christmas Day 1908 secured a "record" boar which 



weighed 400 lbs. This was in the Chinkiang country. 



Amongst others who have had more or less good luck in pig shooting the names 



at once arise of Messrs. Henry Meller, J. H. Pinckvoss, J. J. Tucker and E. O. Arbuthnot. 



WOLVES. 



In February, 1906, Mr. T. R. Jernigan and a friend were on the lakes at Ningpo. On 

 this special day they were not shooting together. Mr. Jernigan's graphic account of what 

 followed are given in his own words : — 



"I was walking along a high dyke when my servant shouted out at the top of his 

 voice, a most unusual thing for him to do. On looking in his direction I saw a large wolf 

 running towards me. With a vicious growl it attempted to pass me, but when it touched 

 the ground it fell stone dead. I do not know whether 1 hit it with the first barrel or not, but 

 I took no risks and a second shot quickly followed the first. Just then my servant who was 

 carrying my second gun, a heavy greener i2-bore, again shouted out, and then I saw 



