74 SHIKAR SKETCHES. 



to what it is further south. The hog being 

 'jobbed' at as represented below. 



Whilst in Bombay and Madras the spear was 

 not only longer (some nine feet in length), but 

 was carried, when riding after hog, with the point 

 uppermost. On reaching the pig, within spearing 

 distance, the spear is brought nearly parallel with 

 the knee, and is allowed a free play from the 

 wrist. The natural impetus derived from a horse 

 going at full speed, carries it into the boar ; and 

 it generally goes in, when well directed, ' like a 

 knife into a pat of butter,' as I once heard it 

 described, as the horse gallops past. It is then 

 easily withdrawn. On no account should the 



