126 CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS. 
would have shamed a kangaroo, and keep¬ 
ing well ahead of the horses. Suddenly 
he stopped and gave up the chase on the 
near side of a broad river, the result of 
the rain. His face was melancholy in 
the extreme, and it was known he would 
not give up the chase without the best of 
reasons, as he was to receive a month’s 
wages (five dollars) if a jabali were 
killed. He explained in Spanish that the 
party had been following the hogs with an 
absolute certainty of catching them, so 
tired had they become, when, to his 
dismay, the tracks of three other fresh 
peccaries were seen coming in at this 
point. Whenever [rcshjabalis join those 
worn out enough to come to bay, the 
latter change their minds as to fighting, 
and will run as long as their fresh com¬ 
panions hold out. We thus would have 
