FISHING AND HUNTING. 117 
it can dart a dozen or two spines into your 
flesh. They are the worst of all; I could 
use almost as much of my readers’ time 
in describing different cactuses as I used of 
my own in picking them out of my flesh 
after the peccary hunt was over, but I 
forbear. 
When we reached Torres nobody 
seemed to know anything about pec¬ 
caries, and as the train stopped there for 
dinner we had plenty of time to talk it 
over. It then appeared that wild hogs 
were to be found all the way from Guay- 
mas to Nogalles, but at this time of the 
year were very scarce, and seen only in 
twos or threes, and not in droves. In 
droves they are pugnacious and will 
easily bay; but in pairs or very small 
numbers they are more timid, and not 
until they are exhausted or overtaken by 
