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spend Christmas, as the surrounding country 

 offered prospects of good hunting and trapping. 



In this we were not disappointed. During 

 our stay here we had a long hne of traps out, which 

 yielded well, while in pig-hunting we were very 

 successful. 



The first pig that was bagged was an enormous 

 animal measuring six feet two inches from tip 

 to tip, with a height of thirty-two inches at the 

 shoulder and a weight of 310 lb. 



For several days reports came in of a sounder of 

 fifteen swine, led by an enormous white pig, the 

 size of a cow. I made up my mind to get this 

 fellow if possible. Several days were spent in 

 fruitless search. Always on returning to camp I 

 was told that the sounder had been seen in some 

 valley other than the one I had been searching. 

 At last one evening, as I was returning from a tiring 

 day in the highest portion of the range, the villagers 

 told me that not half an hour before, the sounder 

 I had been hunting for had passed the village and 

 had climbed the opposite ridge. 



Tired as I was, I at once set off in the direction 

 indicated, and there sure enough were the tracks 

 I had grown so familiar with during the past 

 few days. Following these up, I climbed the long 

 ridge, and was just beginning to think that once 

 more the pigs had eluded me, when one of the 

 villagers who had accompanied me pointed across 

 the ravine on my right. There, in a small field, 



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