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could desire ; and lastly, the weather was delightfully cool 

 and invigorating. 



My carnp was pitched in the very midst of the best ground, 

 and my beaters were a few native " Shikarees " and their dogs, 

 all that was needed in that country ; and luckily it was so, 

 for it would have been beyond my power to get elephants 

 across the wide tideway dividing Sidhu from the main- 

 land. Having taken a very early breakfast, I mounted about 

 eight o'clock my grey Arab, and without anything occurring 

 worthy of note, killed the first three boars in the space of an 

 hour, hardly disposing of one before another was afoot and 

 showing in the open stubble fields, or in fine green grass 

 dotted over here and there with small light coverts, in which 

 the hogs rested during the mid-day heat. 



My second mount that morning was a brown Arab, a gal- 

 loway a trifle under fourteen hands, as active as a monkey, 

 and as brave as a lion, quite up to twelve stone, and therefore, 

 he carried me, at only ten stone five pounds riding weight, 

 with ease ; as gallant a little horse as was ever foaled, but 

 not quite sound in his legs, which had been overtasked by a 

 former owner too heavy for him. I killed a good boar off, 

 and then out of a little bit of swampy grass and wild car- 

 damom, drove three very large hog which made off at speed 

 towards some tamarisk covert a couple of miles off, across a 

 beautifully level plain, unbroken by tidal creek or bushes. 

 At first the pigs gained a little upon my horse, keeping well 

 together, and all three bent upon making the tamarisks 

 ahead, where they hoped to throw us off. After a mile 

 however, we got close together, and then selecting the largest 

 of the party, I gave him a spear in the small ribs, and be- 

 lieving him my own, I followed the next in size, which after 

 a sharp burst of half a mile, I overhauled and discovered to 

 be a huge old sow; leaving her therefore, I went at the 

 utmost speed of my little horse after the third, now nearing 

 his goal, and overtaking him, caused him to slacken his pace, 

 and come down at me like a steam engine, to receive a spear 

 between the shoulders, and then as my horse wheeled round 



