50 SPORTING IN BOTH HEMISPHERES. 



of my friend's, that I could not see, at at least one hundred 

 and fifty. 



My friend, as may be imagined, was not very profuse in 

 his compliments to me on this occasion, and I was retiring, 

 discomfited and extremely ashamed of myself, from the scene, 

 when a shout arose from the sugar-canes, and presently 

 several coolies appeared, dragging with difficulty the body 

 of a wild hog or rather sow, as she turned out to be. 



Upon examination, we found that both my balls had 

 taken effect, rather lower down than I intended, and had 

 passed clean through her, so that the dog must have been 

 killed by one of them after its exit from the "suer's" 

 carcase, which, indeed, did not present much resistance, 

 being as fat as butter or, at least, as a diet of sugar-cane 

 with mud-baths could render it, and probably, acquiring some 

 obliquity of direction by this means, performed the difficult 

 feat of shooting round a corner ; at all events, I am relating 

 a fact. The wild sow weighed upwards of four hundred 

 and fifty pounds, but was big with young. 



This interlude prevented my friend B e from following 



the remainder when they broke cover, which they did in 

 gallant style, to the number of twenty or thirty, and some 

 very large boars amongst them, in the direction of the 

 jungle. 



I shall relate a circumstance that occurred during my 

 residence at Jaulnah, which gave additional lustre to the 

 fame of my friend Sheriff as a " Cutwall Sahib," or Chief of 

 the Police : 



From the sudden and unexplained disappearance of many 

 individuals in the surrounding districts, and even women 

 and children from the Jaulnah bazaar, it was more than sus- 

 pected that a strong party of Phansigars, or Thugs, must be 

 in the neighbourhood. The existence of this horrible and 

 almost incredible race of beings was a fact which at this 



