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himself on the third, the lead hitting his chest and the 

 point coming out at his tail. The hand and thigh of the 

 third man was cut, and the man himself was dashed against 

 the wall. It was against the wall that the spear probably 

 struck when it was driven through the pig. The other 

 spears got up and the pig was quickly killed — a heavy 

 pig of 31 inches. 



The above is an instance of an unblown boar being killed, 

 but he had only a few yards to get up steam in. His killers 

 did not suffer from the weight of a fully-developed charge. 



Last month, here, a boar took cover in the Betel-nut 

 gardens. These are several acres in extent, roofed over 

 with trellis, only about six feet high, and divided into alley 

 ways by hedges of betel -nut, each alley way permitting 

 of the passage of one man only. In the betel gardens it is 

 always semi-twilight, and the lowness of the roof and the 

 narrowness of the alleys makes carrying and handling a 

 spear very awkward. A boar 31 J inches, 185 lbs., had 

 been rattled out of the garden : after receiving a charge 

 of shot in the snout, he had lain up again in it, and nothing 

 would move him. Three spears entered the garden, and 

 saw, sixty yards away down an alley, the bloody snout of 

 the recumbent, but now thoroughly rested boar. Down 

 that alley went two spears, in single file, with the rear man 

 closely backing up the leader. The third spear came down 

 the next alley. Of the two spears in the boar's alley, one 

 had never seen a pig before, and had no idea that he would 

 charge. At thirty yards' distance the boar came at the 

 two spears, reaching them at top speed. The leading man 

 knelt ; his spear took the pig on the off shoulder, and 

 deflected him slightly, but he was knocked over by the 

 boar's shoulder. The boar, squeezing past him, took the 

 hinder man at mid-thigh (luckily not using his tushes), 

 and flung him to blazes, and then passed away, tearing 

 the spear out of his shoulder, but being considerably in- 

 capacitated by his wound. The third man in the next 

 alley was unable to help. After hunting him again by his 

 blood tracks and failing to find, these three left the betel 

 garden, just in time to find the boar had broken, and to 



