THE GUZERAT CUP 189 



The Guzerat Boar, — A good Guzerat boar will 

 measure about 31 inches in height, and is remark- 

 ably fast. When hunted, he is certain to try and 

 make a " point," which he will strive to reach until 

 it is absolutely denied to him. When thus cornered 

 he fights, and fights well, but he is not likely to 

 charge before then. This is quite different to the 

 Bengal boar, who seems to me to think of nothing 

 but fighting, and comes at one at any period of the 

 run. In fact I once saw a boar in Bengal, when 

 driven out of a jheel, reach his jungle stronghold 

 in safety and then deliberately turn round and 

 charge his pursuers. 



A good average boar would weigh about 200 lbs. 

 in winter, 180 lbs. at the end of March. He is nothing 

 like so heavy as the boar at Nagpur, where we killed 

 one over 300 lbs. a few years ago, and this is not 

 uncommon. 



Pig are not very plentiful in Guzerat, but there 

 are quite sufficient for sport, and very rarely did we 

 have an absolutely blank day from Ahmedabad 

 during the two years I was there. 



The Guzerat Country, — The Guzerat country is 

 quite different to any other country I know. The 

 best of the country is dotted over with small jungles, 

 and between them there is the most perfect going 

 on sandy soil, the ground being cut up into fields 

 by cactus hedges of various heights. 



Various obstacles present themselves to the 

 riders, such as a lane with hedges on both sides, a 

 huge cactus fence, a babul thicket, or strip of jhow, 

 which may or may not be as equally formidable 

 to the boar as to his pursuer. 



The distance between these small jungles varies 



