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homeward-bound ships ; that it was considered as 
the granary and victualling place of the traders ; and 
that 80,000 hogs were every year killed for their 
lard alone, for which a constant market was found at 
Carthagena, on the South American, main. When 
Sloane journeyed to the ^ north side^ of the island, 
the cattle which the settlers had reclaimed in tlie 
southern plains, stored so abundantly with neat-kine 
the Savanna pens, that a single settlement possessed 
forty thousand head. The north side was the ex- 
clusive field for wild cattle and horses ; and wild 
swine were plentiful in the same remote districts. 
Sloane, describing the two sorts of Hogs, one run- 
ning wild in the woods, the other fed in crawles, 
says, ‘ the wild swine are brought out by hunters 
with gangs of dogs, and chiefly found in the most 
unfrequented, woody inland parts of the island. 
After pursuit, and they are wearied by the dogs, 
when they come to a bay, they are shot or pierced 
through with lances, cut open, the bones taken out, 
the flesh is gashed on the inside into the skin, 
filled with salt, and exposed to the sun, which is 
called jerking. It is so brought home to their 
masters by the hunters, and eats much as bacon if 
broiled on coals.’ The hunters were both whites 
and blacks. The Indians, of whom there were then 
some in the colony, chiefly imported from the Indian 
coast, were S exquisite at this game.’ They pursued 
their business of hog-hunting far remote from the 
settlements, building huts ‘in the places where swine 
came to feed on the fruits,’ and where they re- 
mained marooning for several days, and preparing 
