AFRICAN WART HOG 
thrust. In Ceylon, Baker daringly did the same thing with 
only a strong knife as his weapon. The ordinary method in 
India, however, is by chasing on horseback; a lot of men armed 
with long-handled spears going to the boar’s haunts, and then 
setting a company of native beaters to drive piggy into the open, 
where the hunters ride at him pellmell and try to strike in a 
spear. ‘Pig stick- Se ries 
ing” is justly re- : 
garded as the most 
exciting of the 
whole list of East- 
ern field sports, and 
is not without its 
dangers, for with 
an upward toss of _ : 
his angry head he HEAD OF WAR? HluG. 
may inflict terrible gashes on horse or man.** In addition to the 
large part this bold and peculiarly British sport fills in all books 
on East Indian outdoor life, a special volume has been devoted 
to it alone. 
The remainder of the list of the swine family need not 
long detain us. The wart hog is an African form 
notable chiefly for its grotesque countenance and 
peculiarities of dentition, which indicate that it has had a long- 
independent line of ancestry. 
Wart Hog. 
“This animal,”’ writes Baker, “is superlatively ugly: the head is dis- 
proportioned to the size of the hog; the tusks are so enormous that they 
appear as though they had belonged to some such larger creature, and had 
merely been assumed as masquerade; there are two prominent protuber- 
ances upon either side of the eyes, also two pendulous warts of large and 
hideous growth; and when this ugly monster becomes excited, it cocks a 
long thin tail, with bristles upon either side, like that of an elephant. This 
appendage is carried straight in the air, as stiff as a stick, which gives the 
animal a ridiculous appearance.” 
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