Warthog 



scalp. This is a necessity. For if a nigger 

 be left to his own sweet devices he is apt to cut 

 the skin off close to where the skull joins the 

 neck vertebrae, with a result that if the trophy 

 is to be set up on a shield, the look of it is com- 

 pletely spoilt. It is far better to leave on too 

 much neck-skin that can always be reduced 

 when in the taxidermist's hands. 



The meat of these pigs is quite excellent 

 eating. My boys brought in the whole of the 

 carcass, and I reserved a haunch for my own 

 consumption. I stumbled across a very humble 

 object on my walk back to camp a land 

 tortoise, and a fairly large one. I made one 

 of the boys carry it. On my return to camp I 

 bored with a bradawl a small hole in the tail end 

 of his shell, put a small loop of soda-water wire 

 into this hole, then tied a long string to the wire. 

 I fastened him up to the pole that should have 

 held my small warthog, but his movements 

 were so slow and cautious that I soon afterwards 

 put him outside of the tent and tied him to a 

 tent peg, where he could crawl and hide himself 

 in the long grass to his heart's content. I 

 eventually got this animal back as far as Fontes- 

 villa, but lost him one evening from under the 

 hotel, where he spent most of the day, and, I 

 suppose, night ; perhaps it was as well, for a 

 more uninteresting pet I never possessed, and 

 it would have been a great nuisance had 



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