90 ON THE INHABITANTS OF THE 



If a hunter goes out alone, and wounds some 

 game, and returns for assistance to find and bring it 

 home ; those who go with him are entitled to one 

 half. 



When it is found that wild boars or other game 

 have been in a cultivated field, the owner leaves a 

 road for the beasts to return, and erects a stage to 

 watch their coming at night. Should he wound any, 

 he repairs to his village to announce his success, and 

 to beat up for volunteers to assist him in ascertain- 

 ing which way the game went, that they may know 

 where to find it in the morning. They are directed in 

 this by the groaning of the animal, which cannot 

 run far, the poison which they use on their arrows 

 being of a most subtile nature; yet its being of so 

 fatal and noxious a quality does not prevent their 

 eating the game, after cutting out a large piece of 

 the flesh round the arrow, which is thrown away. I 

 heard an instance of a man's eating that part, and dy- 

 ing soon after. A sportsman, who goes out alone, 

 keeps half of whatever game he kills ; the remainder 

 (after the Maungy lias taken several joints of the 

 chine) is divided among the inhabitants of the 

 village. 



A skilful and fortunate sportsman, who. gives 

 up all his time to hunting, daily kills more or 



•3. When ten or twelve score heads of game have 

 fallen by his skill, it is customary for him to take 

 all the teeth and horns to a convenient place for 

 prayer, and to sacriiicc a hog over them to Aut- 

 gha, the God of Hunting, who some times favours 



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