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the bullet ; he would otherwise hardly have come to bay 

 with a single dog, or, if he had, would probably have very 

 soon killed it. I have seen an old boar on more than one 

 occasion deliberately go away, taking no notice whatever 

 of half a dozen great Boer-hounds, none of them much 

 smaller than himself — so long, at least, as they confined 

 themselves to baying and did not attempt to bite. If one, 

 bolder than the rest, did dare to come to close quarters, 

 he would turn round with a sudden effective jerk, which 

 either sent the dog away howling, or left it crippled on 

 the ground. The tusks, forming a large section of a circle 

 and of wonderful length, are, especially the lower one, as 

 sharp as a razor and would break even a man's leg if they 

 came fairly in contact with it. 



There are two kinds of pig in South-Eastern Africa — 

 one inhabiting the plains and the light thorn jungles; and 

 the other frequenting heavy timber jungles, though also 

 found, but more rarely, in the thickets in the thorns, and 

 the dense reeds which line the rivers. The former, the 

 " indhlovudawane," is not to be met with south of the 

 twenty-ninth degree of south latitude, and is not plentiful 

 before the twenty-eighth degree, while the latter is 

 common in the colony of Natal, and far below it. The 

 " ingulubi," as it is called by the natives, does an immense 

 amount of damage to their sweet potatoes and fields, and 

 has in consequence been exterminated in many districts. 

 In no way is it the equal of the larger species, carrying 

 tusks little longer than those of a domesticated boar, and 

 affording comparatively little sport to either gun or 



As soon as I got my small pack together, I commenced 



