Sporting Trips of a Subaltern 



left, and very soon came on a large sounder of 

 wart-hog. Now, I had only got one of these, 

 and was very keen on another, so followed them 

 up, and presently got a right and left at two 

 boars ; one succumbed at once, hit in the throat, 

 but the biggest went off, so, leaving the dead one 

 for the present, I started after the other again. 

 I was now reduced to my last cartridge, so, though 

 I had the boar in sight for about a mile, I con- 

 tinued to run after him, being very fearful of a 

 miss. At last I got a chance that would have 

 rejoiced the heart of a baby in arms, but from 

 over-anxiety I suppose I missed clean. I continued 

 to chase the boar for a long way, hoping to get 

 at him with my hunting-knife, but never got on 

 terms. Finally I had to leave him, and as the 

 smaller boar was now some miles back, while it 

 was growing dark and we anticipated some diffi- 

 culty in finding camp, I had to resign myself to 

 the loss of both of them, and luckily soon after 

 struck the caravan tracks and got in tired and 

 unhappy. 



Arrived in the Goli mountains, we separated? 

 I taking Abdi Adan, the head-man, and our one 

 remaining donkey to tie up for lions, while 

 Eustace, as a set-off, had the fat cook. I 

 pitched my tent under some spreading trees in 

 a river-bed in the heart of the mountains. For 

 nearly a fortnight we hunted here; I had no 



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