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hunters. I find, in addition to these, that a very 
common mode of taking the wild animal is by snares. 
A sapling, in its place of growth among the dense 
and lofty trees of the woodlands, is bent down after 
having been stripped of its leaves and small branches. 
A noose, made of a withe, is securely attached to 
the end of the bent tree, and so adjusted with stakes 
slightly fixed, that, on a Hog thrusting its body or 
only a foot through the snare to seize the roots and 
fruits strewed about to attract it, the sapling rises 
up by the force of its own elasticity, and carries the 
Hog into the air, sometimes strangled by the neck, 
but as often caught round the body, or held by one 
of its legs. Your acquaintance with our forests will 
enable you to understand this species of trap, and to 
form a pretty correct conception of the kind of pic- 
ture which might be made to represent it success- 
fully, applied to Hog-snaring. . . . 
“ I mentioned to you that in Sloane’s History of 
Jamaica, you would find some account of the Forest 
Swine. His graphic picture of the herds in the 
^ Crawles'^f as the rude and extensive farms of the 
time were called, would form an interesting illustra- 
tion of your notices of the Wild Hog. My birth- 
place, Montego Bay, formerly written Manteca, and 
Mantiga Bay, derived its name from the supplies of 
lard which were shipped from a district known in the 
old maps as Spanish Quarters. The historian Long, 
who mentions the wild hogs formerly abounding in 
this part, says, that the traffic of the Island at its 
conquest by the English in 1655, although small, 
consisted of supplies of fresh provisions to Spanish 
* A corruption of the Spanish word Corral. 
