SPORT AND SCIENCE ON THE 
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 line 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 Ib. 
For several days reports came in of a sounder of 
fifteen swine, led by an enormous white pig, the 
size of a cow. J 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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