WILD PIGS 47 
They were then put out of doors at some distance 
away ; but I was obliged to have a coolie on guard day 
and night over the tub, and owing to these precautions 
I managed to keep the skeleton entire. 
To show how common tigers are, | may mention 
that this tiger was killed on June 29, and on July 2 a 
tiger killed a pony, both of these being close to my 
house, while from a hamlet about two miles distant, 
and situated over a spur of the mountain, I had almost 
daily reports of domestic animals, such as ponies, oxen, 
and pigs, being killed by tigers or leopards. 
Wild pigs are common, and do much damage at 
night in the fields of Indian corn, the mischief most 
frequently being done when the grain is ripe or nearly 
so. At this time they are sometimes surprised by 
the natives and killed with the long spears mentioned 
before. At other times they are marked into detached 
patches of jungle or small woods, and surrounded and 
killed. 
One day a native brought me two wild boars’ tusks 
and some of the fine, almost bristle-like, quills of the 
porcupine. These he wished to sell to me, saying they 
were the teeth and whiskers of an enormous tiger. He 
asked a fabulous price for them; but upon my telling 
him to what animals they had once belonged, he 
eventually offered to make me a present of them. 
