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many other interestiDg animals around me, I was not ambitious to 

 wear my body out, and perhaps break my neck, in trying to get one 

 or two more goats. 



In the course of our hunting large game, we occasionally feU in 

 with droves of wild hog, or "pig" {Sus Indicus), but somehow I 

 succeeded in killing only two good specimens. We always started 

 them in brushy forest, where the bushes were so thick it was almost 

 impossible to hit a hog ruuuing through them. One day, while 

 we were in camp at Moochpardi, we went out in the afternoon, 

 and in less than an hour brought down a fine doe axis deer and a 

 buck muntjac, which we told Nangen and Corlee to carry home. 

 In returning, Vera and I were alone, walking along a j)ath which 

 led along the edge of a long, open glade with thick, dark jungle 

 on one side. All at at once Vera stopped, knit his brows, focused 

 his keen eyes upon some object among the thick bushes, and the 

 next moment pointed at a large boar standing motionless as a rock 

 behind a tree, with only his head and ears visible. The old fellow 

 thought he was fully screened, but the next instant a rifle bullet 

 went through his ear and into his brain, and we had another fine 

 specimen to add to the day's account. He weighed two hundred 

 and thirty pounds, but Vera and Channa slung him under a pole 

 and trotted home with him in fine style. 



