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The wild hogs plunge into the water to avoid the 

 dogs, and the natives then pui'sue them in boats and 

 kill them with spears. As soon as the hunters return 

 to camp, they cut up the hogs, and smoke the pieces 

 over a smouldering fire. The dogs now skulk about 

 to seize a piece if possible, and while the natives are 

 crouching round the fire transforming the lean pork 

 into tough bacon, you are tVequently startled by a 

 shai'p yelping as some one finds his portion disappeai'- 

 ing beneath the jaws of one of these hungry brutes^ 

 and a liberal chastisement is at once admuaistered to 

 the thief with the first stick or club at hand. 



December T6d, — ^Last night there was another 

 heavy shower. The water poured do\ra in torrents 

 through our thatching of palm-leaves, for we had 

 already found that both the boat's sail and the old 

 tarpaulin afl:brded little protection here where the 

 water appears to tall in broad sheets. Late in the 

 evening the cm fwleur came back from fishing. We 

 could heiir the Malays that were pulling his boat 

 siDging in an unusually loud and meriy style, and all 

 gathered on the beach to see v%^hat wonderful monster 

 of the deep they had secured. It proved to be a fish 

 m large as a liorse-raackerel, and w^eighing fully two 

 hundred pounds, which the cmt7vletir had succeed- 

 ed in taking with a small line by chancing to get it 

 alongside the boat and securing it by gafik As our 

 stock of nee was getting low, we decided to return, 

 though I could scarcely leel satisfied, for I had hoped 

 to get a complete skeleton of the rare l>al)ii'usa ; how- 

 ever, the coiUrolmir more than made up the loss by 

 giving me half a dozen nkulls uf the equally rai-e ante- 



