The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-11

pluck; and their skins are so thick that
even spear will break short off without
leaving even mark where it strikes.
Detaching four or five lads to quarter
and carry this our first slain to the rem
devious, we followed the herd, with
which our dogs had once more come up.
The chief had the first shot again, select
ing the larger of two boars at bay, and
again the ball lodged in the fore-leg, in
furiating the beast without weakening
him much. Carefully watching my OPP
portunity at the other boar, / had de-
liberate shot, and brought him down
with ball in his heart; but no one
could approach to apply the knife, be-
cause of the proximity of the other boar,
at which the chief now had his second
shot, wounding him in the other shoul-
der. =.
By way Of little bit of retaliation, !
suggested that some one had better stand
out and fight the beast, for, with his two
wounds, he had now become infuriated.
Forward jumped the chief in moment,
aud in another the monster was upon
him. The chief received the charge with
whale-spade, giving the boar fearful
cut on the head. Still, maddened to
fury by now tasting his own blood as it
ran down from the wound just inflicted,
the beast rushed on again at the chief,
who this time. by a quick movement,
slipped aside ! littlee, e, and landed the
spade in the neck of his prey, bringing
him Immediately to the ground.
The boar had shot had been duly at
tended to by some of the lads, as soon as
the fight between the chief and his boar
began in earnest; for sometimes these
wild hogs, if the knife is not promptly
applied to the throat, will recover and be
of again before one has any notion of
breath being in them stilL We had
now killed three great hogs, each weigh
ing at,least five hundred pounds, stand
ing, when alive, nearly three feet high,
and measuring, from snout to tail, some
inches over six feet-besides the smaller
one caught alive by the lads.
Itwas noon, and we rested over our
pipes and young cocoanuts for an hour,
and then started off in pursuit once
more. We killed two boars as the after
noon's work, with pretty much the same
adventures as in the morning, excepting
that the last one chased. a lad, who
scrambled up tree just large enough to
bear his weight, and SO great was the
fury of the wounded boar that he COM
menced an attack on the tree, running at
it and biting it with all his force, until
the chief dispatched him. The other one
shot through the head, the ball enter
ing at one ear and passing out at the
other; the pig fell, but before the boy
could get up to him with his knife, the
beast rose and bristled up for battle. As
the animal stood perfectly quiet for a
moment, eying the lad, j placed a ball
in the very center of his head, which we
afterwards found had passed through the
brain, and his career was finished.
AS evening drew on we retraced our
steps to the rendezvous, where the young
men had run up a hut of wild banana
leaves, in which we all lodged for the
night. an.11 seasted on wild pigeons cooked
in their own fat by being wrapped in
young banana leaves-a most delicious
repast after a days fatigue. Young CO.
coanuts warmed on the hot stones were
capital substitute for tea, not to men
tion any thing stronger; and wild yams
and breadfrult were excellent vegetables.
A wood fire in the centero of the hut kept
a few of the mosquitoes out, but by no
means all and we listened to the legends
and stories and riddles of one after an
other, until we all fell asleep. In the
early dawn two lads were sent out to
shoot wild fowls that unconsciously be-
trayed their roosting-places by their fre-
quent Growing. With these for breakfast
we Jared sumptuously.
/ As on the previous day, we had oul
various encounters with the boars, and
one with an enormous sow, the mother
of litter of eleven little pigs, all O
which we afterward caught alive. Thi
was the most furious affair of all, for be
ing more savage and quickerin hermoye
ments than the boars, there was no jump
ing out of her way, no playing leap-fiog
for her long snout would have given al
increased impetus to the spring over he
back if her grip did not suddenl.
check it. i s,s5..s5
l came upon her as she was movin,
of, grunting and snorting at her littl
ones to keep them together, while tn
chief was dispatching small boar KEEP
at bay by the dogs. My boy Pauha,
smart, active little fellow of about -four
teen, and as quick as thought in hi
movements in the brush, caught one Q
the little suckers, and before he coul
squeeze its mouth to stop its squeakine
the sow was after him but Pauha woul
not lose his prize. Gripping the pig
tail between his teeth, he sprang up
tree, and there held on, grinning NOR
like monkey than anything else.
) Before 1 could bring my rifle to beal
the SOW rushed upon me and l had I
, meet her with the butt. Atleast six {
r eight charges did she make before | ha
+ even the smallest chance to grip my ton
i ahawk. The report of the chiefs gun ,
he at last finished off his boar, cause
: : her to look just for moment in that d
rection, and that was my time to dra
: my blade. At the next charge-she WI
too near and too quick to let me use m
3 3 rife-I met her witha blow on the snol
i from my tomahawk, and we had re
: ular hand-to-hand fight, if it may, |
: called SO. At last dog rushed up, s
f on by one of my lads, which the il
!, furiated sow ripped open with one tul
4 of her head; as she dso, my tomahaW
E fell deep into the thick part of her necl
d the battle was over, and Atamu's kni
4 put an end to her.
if The young men had caught sever
e smaller pigs alive, by running them dow
d with the dogs and knocking them oy
n with stones. After second night
the bush, we returned home with eigh
,e cen or twenty pigs, besides the elevt
4, litters. The pigs killed in the bush a
r always cooked there, and taken down
1t baskets, which make a greater show
N the hunters pass frem village to villag
1t 1t is not always that one meets with sto
# resistance as we did upon this, my fl
re hunting expedition; we were fortuna
I'd in falling in with large hogs on that c
casion. have sometimes been out t,
ne or three daysin in the bush, hunting fro
| T ,,aarn,rrr until pi0bf opd had M rao,,1