HOG-HUNTING. 75 



spear shaft be carried tucked under the arm, as 

 shown in pictures of knights engaged in a tourna- 

 ment, in other words, ' in rest.' If a man does 

 this, and spears his pig, ten to one he will be 

 knocked out of his saddle, or get an ugly crack 

 on his head from the shaft as he goes past ; and 

 the same thing would probably happen, even in 

 the event of his missing his i spear,' and striking 

 the ground. The subjoined illustration will show 

 more clearly than I can describe the method in 

 which the spear is held in the Southern Presi- 

 dencies. 



The height of boars and the length of their 

 tusks vary considerably. I believe that, in heavy 

 forest jungle, enormous boars are occasionally met 



