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CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS. 
and attack these pugnacious pigs in their 
own haunts. The jabali (pronounced 
hah-va-lee in the Mexican version of the 
Spanish language) is the wild hog of 
Northern Mexico, and while one of them 
is in no wise equal to the wild boar of 
other countries, still, as they go in droves, 
and are equal in courage, they more than 
make up in numbers all they lose by 
being considered individually. Up to 
this time my game list had included polar 
bears, chipmunks, moose, jack rabbits, 
grizzlies, snipe, elk, buffalo, snow birds, 
reindeer, vultures, panther, and others, 
but as yet the scalp of no peccary dangled 
from my belt. So one fine morning we 
pulled out for Torres station, about 
twenty or twenty-five miles up the railway, 
where peccaries could be expected, and 
where horses (better speaking, the buck- 
