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agility. At one place (Alipur) we always found 

 outlying pig. Here one day during the Mohurrum 

 Meet our bag was seven boar. The average height 

 of these was 33 inches and weight 261 lbs. The 

 largest measured 35 J inches, and weighed 319 lbs. 

 This is the largest boar I have seen killed, but not 

 the heaviest. We got one weighing 325 lbs. I 

 cannot discover what the record tushes of the hunt 

 are, but I got one boar whose height was 33 1 inches, 

 weight 285 lbs., with thick tushes measuring 9| 

 and 12 J inches. The longer one was due to a 

 broken upper tush. This defect probably saved 

 a pony from being disembowelled, as the pig got 

 right under and kept lifting him up and down. 



I also got a 33 J incher weighing 325 lbs. with 

 very thick perfect tushes measuring 9 J and 9| 

 inches. This was an " outlier." He would not 

 get up until he received a charge of No. 5 shot 

 behind. 



Our record year was the season 1906-1907, when 

 " Pat " Gibson of the Durham Light Infantry was 

 our " Captain." 



Total number of boar killed that season 107 

 Hunting days .... 37 



28-6 in. 

 191-4 lbs. 

 35J in. 

 302 lbs. 



Average height of boar killed 

 Average weight of boar killed 

 Largest boar killed 

 Heaviest boar killed 



The biggest boar ever killed by the hunt measured 

 38 inches and weighed 358 lbs. ; first spear. Captain 

 R. D. Burlton, 2nd Madras Lancers, 1896. 



Brethren of the Nagpur Hunt, I have done my 

 best to tell " the tale of our lives." It has been 

 feebly done, yet as one wrote one seemed again to 

 feel the grip of the spear and saddle, the straining 



