HOG RETREATING INTO A VILLAGE. 267 



greatest tortures. After receiving seven or eight 

 spears into their bodies, I have known them dodge 

 about from one small spot of cultivation or cover 

 to another, for hours, charging the hunters upon 

 every opportunity. They never give up but with 

 their lives, nor do they ever appear to suffer 

 pain : an instance of which happened when I 

 was hunting them, in company with several other 

 gentlemen, in the neighbourhood of Gyah. Early 

 in the morning, I slightly speared a large boar in 

 one of his hind legs, which disabled him from run- 

 ning off to any large cover ; he dodged about from 

 one field of grain to another for several hours, 

 charging every horse that came near him ; one of 

 them he severely ripped. I am certain that more 

 than fifty spears were thrown at him ; yet he re- 

 ceived only two or three wounds ; but he was so 

 wearied, that he ran to a large village, and into 

 the first house for shelter, driving the inhabitants 

 out : as soon as he was forced to quit one house, 

 he entered another : in this mariner he continued 

 through a great part of the village. In many of 

 the houses, we were obliged to remove the thatch 

 on the top of them to start him ; at last he took 

 possession of a court that was surrounded with a 

 wall on three sides, and a house on the other, and 

 laid down just in the centre, too far from the 



