400 BIG GAME OF NORTH AMERICA. 



seemed dazed. They stood around and snuffed the air, 

 while we emptied our rifles. While reloading, they seemed 

 to get sight of us for the first time, gave a snort, and down 

 the mountain they went. We fired at them until out of 

 sight, and on counting up, found we had killed eleven where 

 they stood and three while they were running. 



We cut the hind quarters from four of the fattest, hung 

 them in some trees, and followed the herd, which it was 

 easy to do. The ground being soft, they made a good trail, 

 and after following them about a mile we saw them again, 

 feeding. W-^e made a circuit around a small hill and got 

 close to them, but they broke at the first fire. However, 

 we had good shots, as they ran close together, over compar- 

 atively open ground, and dispatched seven before they got 

 away. This was sport enough for one day, so we started 

 for camp. 



That night we discussed the best plans for killing the 

 Peccaries, and concluded that we would try to get close to 

 them and near some trees; then one man could shoot and 

 cripple one of them ; then let them smell us, and they would 

 come for us. We would then climb the trees, and while 

 they would try to gnaw the trees down we could kill the 

 whole herd, as it is a well-known fact that if they wind you 

 after one of them is crijppled, they will charge you. Then, 

 the only show is to go up a tree or outrun them, which I 

 found, the following day, to be hard to do. We had deter- 

 mined to kill the whole herd if j^ossible, though I now see 

 how foolish it was, as we had no use for them. 



Early next morning we were off uj) the mountain, with 

 a hundred shells each, determined to kill all there were in 

 the herd, provided we could get them to charge us. As 

 before, we agreed to keep together and near the trees, there 

 being plenty of scrub-cedars growing on the sides of the 

 mountain. We went in the same direction we had gone 

 the first day, and going to where we killed the first ones, we 

 found one had been eaten and another carried off. W^e 

 saw by the tracks that this had been done by a Grizzly, 

 and some of the boys wanted to follow him; so we took a 



