CHAPTER Y. 



Wild Hog and Hog-hunting Hogs sabred on Horse-back Mode of 

 Hunting adopted by Native "Shikarees" Running down and 

 Spearing Boars on Foot Famous Hog-hunting Grounds Good 

 Sport and a bad Accident Cuts and Wounds inflicted by Boars 

 A strange Incident and a severe Wound A narrow Escape and a 

 Hand-to-hand Encounter Relative Qualifications of various Breeds 

 of Horses for "Pig-sticking" A Misadventure Wild Hogs as 

 Comic Characters Mr. Billoo's Adventure. 



I HAVE read of boars being sabred, but have never seen it 

 done, or attempted it myself, though I can well believe that 

 running hogs may be cut down by expert swordsmen, armed 

 with heavy and keen blades. Against a charging hog of 

 considerable size, I consider that a mounted swordsman 

 would fare ill, and would have his horse badly cut, almost to 

 a certainty. A point, delivered truly, would, no doubt, kill 

 the charging beast, but would hardly stop him in his rush, 

 and he would most probably get home on horse or rider. 



When pigs through experience refuse to break, and prefer 

 to dash through the line of elephants or beaters, a charge of 

 snipe shot put in behind will often be found efficacious. Find- 

 ing themselves exposed to such painful attacks, they will 

 face the plain, and endeavour to gain another covert rather 

 than court a repetition of the argument a tergo. 



I have often seen wild hog run down by " Shikarees" on 

 foot, assisted by their dogs, the common village, country cur, 

 but trained to the sport. Men and dogs, equally active and 

 sinewy, effect their purpose by perseverance, and not by 

 speed. A boar or sow, found in the bushes or canes round a 

 village or some old pond, will be first baited by the dogs, and 



