CHAP. XXIII. 



HUNTING IN MAY AND JUNE, NOT PRACTICABLE 



IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE HEAT. SHOOTING 



HOGS . CATCHING THEM IN NETS. HOGS IN 



PAWN-GARDENS. 



IN March and April they are generally in good 

 condition, but in May and June, most of them are 

 lean, and run so fast as to astonish Europeans 

 who have never seen them before, and who 

 estimate their speed by what they know of tame 

 swine. They are sometimes driven out of jungles 

 by setting them on fire : in this case, they are 

 usually shot or caught in nets, the weather being 

 too hot, with the increased heat of the surrounding 

 atmosphere from the fire, for people to undergo 

 the violent exercise of hunting them on horseback 

 with spears. In the lower parts of Bengal, they 

 frequently inhabit pawn* gardens, which are 



* Pawn gardens are enclosures made with strong bam- 

 boos, covered on the top with a lattice work, on which the 

 betel plants spread their leaves : these leaves are used to 

 enclose spices, gum kino, lime, and tobacco, which the 

 natives chew, and are called pawns. 



