CHAP. XXVIII. 



HOG HUNTING IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER. 



HUNTING PARTY MADE BY THE AUTHOR. 



CURIOUS ACCIDENTS, &C. CHRISTENING HUNTS- 

 MEN. CONCLUSION, 



THE rainy season breaks up about the end of Sep- 

 tember, at which period the hogs begin to disperse 

 about the country, and may occasionally be found 

 in any high and thick cultivation.* In Novem- 

 ber and December, they are frequently in red 

 sugar canes, which are ripe much earlier than 

 yellow, and are driven out of them and hunted 

 in the same manner as described before, when 

 found in the yellow ; but the sport is seldom so 

 good, owing to the quantity of high vegetation 

 then standing in every part of the country, par- 



* When the rainy season is at an end, the cold season is 

 supposed to commence, which is not strictly the case ; for 

 throughout October it is very hot all the day, though cold 

 at night, which may be accounted for from the great exha- 

 lation in the day falling again at night, causing this 

 month to be extremely unhealthy. 



