42 HOGS. 



rteath them to use any exertion to which they are 

 not compelled. 



Wild hogs are plentiful in every part of India 

 where there are covers near water in which they 

 may lie undisturbed. The natives kill them from 

 platforms, and catch them in nets when they come 

 to feed on their sugar plantations. They lay the 

 nets at the places where they are known to 

 enter the cane,* which is easily seen by the fences 

 being broken down. They drive them in the 

 night time with dogs and noisy instruments, out of 

 the plantations into the nets. They also catch 

 them in nooses made with ropes, and shoot them 

 from elephants. 



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Wolves are found in all parts of India ; but ] 

 have remarked that they are most numerous 

 where there are no tigers, panthers or leopards ; 

 in Ramghur they are very scarce. In the upper 

 provinces, at Cawnpore, Futtyghur Agra, and 

 Muttrah, they exist in great numbers : the method 

 by which they are caught is very curious. A 



* This term is used in India for a plantation of sugar. 



