268 HOG AT BAY IN A COURT. 



wall or house to be speared from either, and we 

 could not enter the court on horseback. Whilst 

 we were consulting what was best to be done to 

 get him out, a native servant belonging to one of 

 the gentlemen present, denominated a Belchaba- 

 dar,* dressed in muslin, with a fine pink coloured 

 turban, boldly volunteered to drive him out, and 

 as soon as he entered the court, with his spear 

 pointing towards the hog, he received a desperate 

 charge; fortunately for him, the hog's tusk en- 

 tangled in his cumberband^ which, giving way, 

 preserved his body : the hog was much too high 

 to pass between his legs, and he was carried off on 

 the hog's back, through the door way, for about 

 forty yards, safely lodged in a drain, and com- 

 pletely covered with mud, to the great amuse- 

 ment of all the party. The hog finding no place 

 of safe retreat, returned by a circuitous route to 

 the same court. The head man of the village 

 then came to us, and requested, as a favour, that 

 we would allow him to be shot, representing that 

 he had wounded several of the people he had 

 driven out of their houses, and that the rest were 



* Belchabadar signifies " Silver spear bearer." 

 f Cumberland is a narrow cloth, of eight or ten yards 

 long, worn by the natives, bound tightly round their waists. 



