48 HOGS. 



As Captain Williamson observes., it is very 

 true that the native Gentlemen of India are 

 rarely ever expert at any active sport; they 

 consider it beneath them, to use any exertion 

 to which they are not compelled. ' 



Wild hogs are plentiful in every part of 

 India \vhere there are covers near water in 

 which they may lie undisturbed. For a de- 

 scription of hunting them by Europeans on 

 horse-back with spears [a noble and manly 

 sport] a copious detailed account may be seen 

 in Captain Williamson's book of oriental 

 sports. The natives kill them from platforms, 

 and catch them in nets when they come to 

 feed on their sugar plantations. They lay the 

 nets at the places where they are known to 

 enter the cane/ which is easily seen by the 

 fences being broken down. They drive them 

 in the night time with dogs and noisy instru- 

 ments, out of the plantations into the nets. 

 They also catch them in nooses made with 

 ropes, and shoot them from elephants. 



* This is the term used in India for a plantation of sugar. 



