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shot passed through his snout, breaking the lower 

 jaw, thereby putting him out of action for offensive 

 purposes, and passing on, broke a fore leg into the 

 bargain, and as he was going on, either A. or myself 

 broke a hind leg. Both the rifle and my left arm were 

 covered with blood from the pig, and no doubt I fell 

 right on top of him, his broken jaw, however, putting 

 mischief beyond his power. He was a very old boar 

 indeed, almost white, and with his molars and 

 incisors mere stumps. The tushes were of extra- 

 ordinary length lOf inches outside the gum for the 

 upper, and 4| inches for the lower jaw. Unluckily, one 

 upper tush had been broken, though in India I found 

 this the rule, rather than the exception, with really 

 good pig. He measured 26| inches and scaled 171 lb., 

 being decidedly less leggy than his Indian cousin. 

 A camel was brought from camp in the course of an 

 hour, and the remainder of the day spent attending 

 to the mask, as I proposed to set up the head of a 

 beast by which I was so nearly discomfited. I also 

 spent an hour deciphering a Hindi epistle to Amir 

 Baksh, a batch of letters having arrived the previous 

 day. An Urdu letter to Abdur Kahman entirely 

 beat me. 



January 22th. After dinner I proceeded to the 

 machan and tied up a new goat, which called well. 

 After half an hour I heard some animal approaching 

 the back of the machan, which was not well screened 



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