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hunters. I find, in addition to these, that a very 

 common mode of taking the wild animal is by snares. 

 A sapling, in its place of growth among the dense 

 and lofty trees of the woodlands, is bent down after 

 having been stripped of its leaves and small branches. 

 A noose, made of a withe, is securely attached to 

 the end of the bent tree, and so adjusted with stakes 

 slightly fixed, that, on a Hog thrusting its body or 

 only a foot through the snare to seize the roots and 

 fruits strewed about to attract it, the sapling rises 

 up by the force of its own elasticity, and carries the 

 Hog into the air, sometimes strangled by the neck, 

 but as often caught round the body, or held by one 

 of its legs. Your acquaintance with our forests will 

 enable you to understand this species of trap, and to 

 form a pretty correct conception of the kind of pic- 

 ture which might be made to represent it success- 

 fully, applied to Hog- snaring. . . . 



"I mentioned to you that in Sloane's History of 

 Jamaica, you would find some account of the Forest 

 Swine. His graphic picture of the herds in the 

 ' Crawles''*, as the rude and extensive farms of the 

 time were called, would form an interesting illustra- 

 tion of your notices of the Wild Hog. My birth- 

 place, Montego Bay, formerly written Manteca, and 

 Mantiga Bay, derived its name from the supplies of 

 lard which were shipped from a district known in the 

 old maps as Spanish Quarters. The historian Long, 

 who mentions the wild hogs formerly abounding in 

 this part, says, that the traffic of the Island at its 

 conquest by the English in 1655, although small, 

 consisted of supplies of fresh provisions to Spanish 



* A corruption of the Spanish word Corral. 



