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struck the ground, before it could recover, 
was upon it, striking it with its head and throwing, 
it on its side. Standing on its adversary, with its 
front feet holding it down and unmindful of the 
snarling, biting and clawing, with a squealing 
grunt, the boar lowered his head and with one rip- 
ping thrust disemboweled the leopard. 
It was done quicker than the eye could follow. 
The leopard lay where it was; it attempted to rise, 
but the boar, jumping and stamping upon it, it fell 
back, gave one or two spasmodic efforts to rise and 
turned over dead. The boar still standing over it, 
squealing, its head rolling from side to side, its hind 
feet sagged and, giving a squealing grunt, fell over 
the leopard, dead. It was truly a battle royal. I 
was thrilled. I could not move. It was the most 
thrilling sight I think I ever witnessed. My admir- 
ation for the boar was great; had he not died, and 
had been able to move off, I would have made no 
attempt to either stop or kill him. It was a mag- 
nificent fight, with the boar on his feet last. 
We buried the dead fighters and went on our, 
way. Coming toa small stream, I decided to make 
camp. We built platforms in trees for sleeping 
and as a cache for stores, cutting down the sur- 
rounding trees and leaving a small clearing. The 
next day i had the men cut saplings and rattan 
to make rough transportation cages. I wanted 
everything handy so a cage could be made in a 
few moments. The natives could not at first under- | 
