Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-12-01
SPORT In THE INDIES.
An Exciting Wild Boar Hunt I'm Jasnai
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SPORT in THE INDIES.
An Exciting Wild Boar. Hunt in Jasnaica.
From Land and Water.
A cry of s Wake, massa, wild pig in
the grain !" caused myself and my
worthy and much esteemed friends to
spring up off our beds one wet October
morning, while staying at an old aban-
doned estate somewhere in the very
centre of Jamaica. A short time be-
fore, wild boar had had the effrontry
to penetrate on moonlight morning,
into the very yard surrounding the
''the great house." and more than that
to poke his nose into an Clubhouse.
An early rising boy saw the animal
steal in md very quietly shut the door
upon him. "Busha" (AnPlice over
seer was away at the time, and nobody
had gun. So the negroes crawled in
at hole in the roof, angled for time,
and succeeded in noosing the intruder,
who was hoisted up, till he stood on
his hind legs, and then dispatched by
means of crowbars by other negroes,
who entered at the door. We were not
long in getting ready, and, taking our
guns, loaded with slugs, and accom-
panied by the three or four mongrel
dogs which are generally to be seen
about jamaica country house, off we
started after our guide. Our path
was narrow, zigzag and steep.
ALI paths used by negroes are
narrow; for they never walk abreast of
each other. but always in single file. It
often surprises one, on folio wing
thin, but well-beaten track in the bush,
to come suddenly upon populous vii
lage of huts, which probably will have
no other outlet. We were led up the
side of a steep limestone hill, covered
with virgin forest, and, therefore, for
tunately free from underwood. On the
ridges were situated the provision
grounds in which we expected to find
our quarry. And, indeed, the dogs
soon gave tongue, and scampered heller
SHELTER down the other side Of the hill.
'Him gone to de cotton tree down a
bottom" said Sambo, and we had to
follow. But to 60 this was no easy
matter; it is simply impossible to M. Ike
rapid may in Straight line down a
wooded honeycomb limestone noun
tain. For not only are the occasional
bushes of wait-a-bit likely to remind
you not to be in hurry, but immense
boulders of the honeycomb rock lie
scattered about, and jumping from one
to the other, or climbing over them, re-
quires time and care. We elected to
go down to the cotton tree by the
roundabout but easier way. Just then q
slight rustic was heard among the plan
tians. Sambo informed us it was the
''held male and piccaninnies" running
away. 1t seems that whenever bore
and his family are disturbed, if they
cannot all get away unperceived, the
boar shows fight, and leads away the
enemy, while the SOW and young ones
make off in different direction. Long
before reaching the spot we could hear
that our friend was well at bay. APP
preaching cautiously, we at last saw
him within range, standing between
the buttress-like roots of the tree with
his stern to the trunk, and
the dogs yelping in front. We
both fired, and evidently him. He
instantly burst through the dogs
and made in our direction. It was un-
necessary to say that Sambo was up a
tree i'll no time. One OF the dogs for
tunately caught the animal by the flank.
and turned him again to the tree. An
other shot in the shoulder then finished
him. He proved TO be a fine russell
brown six-year- with tusks eight
inches long, of which three inches
projected from the lips. Wild
pigs are by no means uncommon
in Jamaica, There are very few
''mango- walks'' which are now visited
nightly during the fruit season by two
or three of them, though during the day
they keep in the most inaccessible
woods. They are not indigenous, but
are all descended from the domestic
pigs of the old Spanish colonists, or
from others which have since become
! feral. In the time of the buccaneers, it
appears that Jamaica was great pro-
yisioning station for pork. Large
herds Of semi-wild pigs were allowed to
roam and feed themselves in the woods
during the day, and recalled by the
sound Of horn at night. Later Oh.
the Maroons," descendants of run
away slaves, principally gained their
livelihood by hunting pigs in the bush
roughly picking and smoking the
flesh to form the so-calIed jerked pork.
| The wild pigs In the island have nearly
all acquired a reddish tinge, although
varying in color from light brown to
almost black.
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