Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-13

can fire q blank shot and turn him.
The boar will turn at the noise and the
the flash but if the boar is in distance
you gather your reins, brace yourself in
your saddle, take your spear and run at
full speed. The boar always seeks
fight. II at all in condition he will 60
at a pace which no horse can keep. But
this does not last long. The first burst
over and you gain on him. In time
you ride him down, and, as you pass,
you drive the spear into his TANKS, or
| if YOU can into his back SO as to sever
his spine. But this is not often done.
The law of the chase is that the first
stroke of the spear gives you the right
to the trophy. You wound the boar
severely perhaps. Your spear is
wrenched from your hand, is broken by
the boar, who will snap the iron blade
as easily as stalk of cane. Even when
wounded the boar will keep his flight.
You pursue him and again spear him,
and sometimes again and again. The
animal, faint from the running, from
the loss of blood from the wounds,
comes to bay, stops and turns. Then
| comes the real interest of the chase.
He turns to bay and makes rush.
Well for the horseman who can not
only keep his seat, but so guide his
horse that the boar will not plunge his
| tusk into his animals TANKS and rip
him open. The Colonel, when he ran
down his first boar, drove the spear.
1t was hastily, perhaps awkwardly
done. and the boar snapped off the
blade. When the boar turned it
charged the Colonel's horse. He avoid
ed the charge, the boar simply touching
the Colonels foot as he passed.
Another horseman was not SO fortunate,
as the animal drove his tusk into its
flank and made an ugly cash. Another
spear was given the Colonel, who again
speared the boar, and this time more
effectively, for the animal turned over
and died.
One pig is not bad days sport, but
the morning was not far gone, and the
Colonel felt that the spearing on his
part had not been we'll done. 1t was
his first trial, however, and he would
have been pardoned had he come home
content with his trophy. So the hunt
went on. In a short time another boar
was found and the Colonel charged it.
This time the battle was in the Col.
onel's own hands. He had seen how
the director of the hunt had managed
his business, and the result was tri-
! umph. Riding the boar out of his
swift pace he drove the spear. When
the animal turned he faced and fought.
Another horse in this charge, ridden
by an attendant, was wounded, the boar
taking him in the shoulder and inhict-
ing an ugly wound. Another attendant
was thrown and bruised. But the end
came, and the Colonel drove his spear
home, thus securing his second pig,
and glory enough for the day. It was
then proposed to shoot antelope. The
antelope is no less wary in the Jungle
than in our own prairie. He is wary
and feet. It is difficult to stalk him,
for going on foot through jungle,
where the widest Of wild animals may
come on you, is not sensible proceed
ing. In Jeypore there are two ways of
hunting the antelope. One is with the
cheetah, an animal of the leopard spe.
| cies, of remarkable speed for short
run. The cheetah is taken and trained.
I do not think he ever becomes thor
oughly tanned, although I saw some in
Jeypore led around by attendants. I
did not test their docility, having the
emotion of early menagerie days, and
thinking it odd TO see long, creeping,
spotted leopard pacing up and down
the streets. The Maharajah has several
in his hunting establishment, and, if
our party mad cared, would have given
us a cheetah hunt. The animal is
tamed-at least made tame enough to
obey his keeper. He is taken in an OK
cart to the jungle and hooded. Tho OK
cart drives into the jungle, and SO ap-
proaches the antelopes. The OK cart is
so familiar, as the common wagon of
the farmer, that its passing does not
disturb them. A horseman or trav-
eler or hunter, wearing different
tint of garment from the ordinary
peasant, would set whole herd in mo-
ton. The OK cart approaches within
three or four hundred yards. The
cheetah is unhooded and flies at his
game. If successful he brings it down
on the first run. Selling the animal by
the throat, there is no escaping. If,
however, the distance is badly consid-
| cred, and the antelope shows too much
speed, or the cheetah is bewildered and
does not spring at the moment, the an
telope gets off, for the speed of the
| cheetah does not last beyond the first
few hundred yards. He has no enter
| prise, no sense, and when his expert
ment fails stops, and would perhaps go
leaping into the jungle if his keeper
did not come and, covering him with a
hood, lead him to his cart. If he sue.
ceeds and brings the antelope down he
is allowed to drink his blood as a re-
ward. This reward is the condition of
tameness. Cheetah hunting is more an
amusement of the natives than the En-
glish. 1t is curious sport, and was
shown to the Prince of Wales when in
Jeypore. Good hunters. English hun
tiers. think it questionable proceeding
to steal upon an antelope in disguise and
attack him with wild beast. The Col
onel and his party had the OK carts at
their disposal, and, satisfied with their
exploits over the boar, went after the
antelope. The carts drove within good
shooting range, when the Colonel
brought down fine buck. This closed