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work. The " indhlovudawane " feeds in small family 

 herds of from two to eight or ten, and comes out to root 

 in the glades and opens for two or three hours every 

 morning and evening ; so I knew both when and where 

 to find them, and I had such good sport, after one or two 

 comparative failures, that I kept on, and at the end of 

 two months had killed a large number of pig at the 

 expense of losing several of my dogs. My failures were 

 at first caused by the dogs generally all tailing on to one 

 unfortunate porker, rarely to a full-grown boar or sow, and 

 allowing all the remainder to escape ; but after tasting 

 blood several times they warmed to their work, and it was 

 nothing unusual for three or four (and I have seen six) 

 pigs to be all held at bay simultaneously within a mile 

 of each other. Two dogs would combine, and keeping 

 themselves as clear as possible from the tusks, would ulti- 

 mately seize the animal behind until it got furious and 

 began to charge, coming to bay for a few minutes, and 

 then breaking, only to be again brought to a standstill by 

 the same manoeuvres. They nearly always broke bay 

 when I got up to the place, but the hounds, encouraged 

 by seeing me, would rush in one on each side and lay 

 hold behind, and allow themselves to hang there until the 

 pig, tired of dragging them and mad with pain, would 

 face round, and often, seeing me, would come straight on 

 without any further notice ; indeed, two out of every three 

 were killed charging. A fair proportion used to escape 

 into the innumerable hyena, ant-eater, and porcupine 

 holes, and though I sent for a couple of spades from the 

 waggon, I seldom succeeded in getting them out. They 

 have a most curious mode of exit when they do bolt — a 



