CHAP. XXV. 



HOG HUNTING FROM JULY TO NOVEMBER. 



DRIVING HOGS FROM THE PLAINS. GREAT 



SPEED OF THE HOG. RIVERS, DITCHES, &C., 



DANGEROUS IN THE PLAINS. 



FROM July, to about the middle of November, 

 they resort chiefly to these plains, and hunters 

 seldom seek for them in any other covers. The 

 usual method of hunting them on these plains is 

 as follows: The hunters ride thirty or forty 

 yards wide of each other, according to the num- 

 ber that are out, and thickness of the grass, with 

 their servants, led horses and elephants (if they 

 have any with them) between them in a regular 

 line, in which manner they proceed slowly and 

 slightly through the grass, until a boar starts up, 

 or one of their beds is seen : in the latter case a 

 signal is given, and they all draw near together, 

 when the person who first discovered it, rides up 

 by one of the sides of the bed, and either throws 

 his spear into it, or makes a noise, and drives the 

 hog out : if he rides up with his horse's side opposite 



