WILD HOG. 



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threw off our jackets, and, appcarinf^ in full Sarawak 

 uuiform, vi^,, shirts and trowsers only, wo discmscd with 

 IcKS ceremony, and more comfort, the past, the present, 

 and the future. 



On one of the nights during otir stay at Sarawak we 

 were (liatiirhGd by a couple of sliots, fired in the garden 

 adjoining Mr. Ruppcirs hungalow, in which T was billeted* 

 On reaching the spot^ we found a huge liog making his 

 last gasp. His epicurean taste for yams and pine-apples 

 had long made him a great imL^iiice hcreaboiits ; but 

 his agihty being as remarkahlo as his appetite — cnahliiig 

 iiim to clear at one hound a six-foot high logwood fence 

 — ho had ckidcd aU attempts of the Sarawak sportsmen 

 to stop liis gastronomic career. At length j however, one 

 " Peter " was too cunning for liim : he verified the 

 proverb about the pitcher which comes too often to the 

 well. The exact height of this monster was three feet 

 four inches : within his expanded jaws a small chihi 

 might have stood upright 



We should have Uked a longer sojoura at Sa^wak, 

 but our new settlement had to be attended to, 



Ob the 23rd September, the M^nndcr dropjwd down 

 and anchored oiT Tanjong Foe ; and on tlie moniing of 

 the 2r5th we sailed for Labuan, 29th September we 

 anchored in Victoria Harbour, Labuan. 



Temporary residences, consisting of small square 

 cottage sheds raised about four feet from the ground, m 

 all Malay buildings are, on piles, had been erected \ bnt 



