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with, but in the plains they do not, as a rule, run 

 so big. The biggest I ever speared myself measur- 

 ed thirty-four inches from the point of the wither 

 to the heel our method of measurement in the 

 Nagpore Hunt. The average was, however, about 

 thirty-one inches. The largest boar on record in 

 the c Hunt Book ' was thirty-seven inches, and he 

 must have been a monster. In 1870-71, the re- 

 cords of the Nagpore Hunt showed twenty-one 

 boars measuring thirty-one inches or over: of 

 these, one was thirty-seven inches, one thirty-six 

 inches, one thirty-five and a half inches, three 

 thirty-four and a half inches, five thirty-four 

 inches, and five thirty-three and thirty-three and 

 a half inches. The largest boars have not always 

 the best tusks, and the thirty-four incher I have 

 above alluded to and which I killed with a single 

 spear had tusks nine and a quarter inches in 

 length, and were the second-best pair on record 

 in the annals of the Hunt, the best pair measuring 

 nine and a half inches ; whereas the thirty-seven 

 incher had tusks only six and a quarter inches. 

 Perhaps an account of how I got this boar may 

 not be here out of place. 



It was on the 18th of August, 1870, the week 

 following the good scuffle related at page 28, 

 and close to the same place. "We had, late in 

 the afternoon, roused this large boar out of a 



