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that might try and break on that side. A whole 

 sounder broke across the stream regardless of Sobha 

 Singh, who was encouraged by the enraged Gaussen 

 with shouts of " Can't you stop them, Sobha Singh ? " 

 The Ressaidar, as he said afterwards, got fed up 

 with not being able to stop the hog, and seeing 

 a large boar swimming across determined to spear 

 him in the water. He did so as the boar was nearing 

 land. The Ressaidar says, and Gaussen from what 

 he saw believes, that the boar was swimming when 

 speared. He was, however, so strong in the water 

 that he forced his way to land against the spear 

 and threw his enemy on to the broad of his back. 

 Sobha Singh put out his hand to save himself. 

 The boar seized his arm at the wrist in his mouth 

 and carried him up the bank, shaking him. Gaussen 

 tells me that it was an extraordinary sight to see 

 this boar shaking the Ressaidar, who is a big, 

 powerful man, as a dog does a rat. Gaussen at 

 once crossed, but by that time the boar had dropped 

 his arm and got away. Sobha Singh was very 

 severely mauled ; his right arm was pulp. He was 

 wearing the Sikh arm bracelet, and this saved the 

 arm, which, but for it, in Gaussen's opinion, would 

 have been bitten clean off. Had the boar used his 

 tushes he must have killed the man at once. I 

 always suspect that in Kinloch's historic mauling a 

 number of the wounds were from bites. 



One of " R." last year had a curious experience 

 in the way of wounds. He found a bull bison 

 asleep in the jungle, and thinking it dead walked 

 up to it to examine its horns. The indignant bull 

 woke up and promptly tossed Attoe over his head. 

 " You will be pleased, sir, to learn," they wrote, 

 " that Gunner Attoe has been tossed by a bison." 



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