The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-07
DANGEROUS GAME.
The Vindictive Peccary and Some
Of It's Queer Traits.
The Hunters Who Know Anything About
This Strange Animal Select the
Branches of . Tree as
Point of Vantage.

Point of Vantage.
81 haven't the least idea In the world
that you ever hunted peccary. did
| you?" asked sportsman who affects Q
knowledge of and delight in large and
! out-of-the-common kinds of game, SAYS
/ the New York Sun ''Of course you
never did, and unless you have a cart
load of nerve and ammunition enough
to stock a garrison | wouldn't advise
| you to. The peccary, as you doubtless
know, is little animal somewhat on
| the wild hog order, and he roams pref
! ty much where he pleases in southern
| Texas and abutting regions. There was
a time when it was thought that moth
ing would kill a peccary but arrows in
oculated with the deadly poison of the
| bloated rattlesnake of the Staked
Plains, which the Apache Indians have
cheerful way of distilling and apply
ing, but that was before the days of
Winchester is just searching enough to
find peccary's vitals, but the range
doesn't want to be too long.
when a man goes out hunting pee
carries he doesn't trip lightly through
the forest, steal upon his unsuspecting
game and bring it down with his trusty
rife. Not when he hunts peccaries, he
doesn't. II he did, nineteen seconds after
he fired his first shot he would be APP
portioned out among the drove in two
ounce lots, buttons, boots and baggage
counted in. The daring peccary hunter
shins up a tall tree near where the
cheerful creatures will more than likely
come to feed. The peccary has one
great virtue. He can't climb a tree.
Perched safely on limb the bold hunts
man waits for the coming of the pecca-
ries, and when the drove comes trotting
and grunting along beneath him he
sends a bullet through a peccary's
heart. The wounded peccary lies down
at once. He knows just what's the
matter. He turns his glittering bead of
an eye up toward the hunter and dies
without uttering a sound
Zone peccary killed out of drove,
the hunter must either have ammuni-
ton enough to kill all the rest or pro-
visions enough to last him year, for
the survivors at once take positions
around and about the tree and sit there
on their launches waiting for the hunt
er to come down. II hate, in the fullest
sense of the word. can be expressed by
looks, then the peccary can look and act
it toward any living thing that has
done it or its companion an injury. The
peccaries were the original knights Of
labor, for their motto has been from the
beginning: AN injury TO one is the con-
Germ of all They never let up when
they start out to avenge an injury.
The hunter may shoot one after
another of the waiting and watching
drove, and each one. as il receives its
death wound, lies down without muir
muir and dies, never removing its glar-
ing eyes from its slayer as long as life
lasts. The living peccaries pay no at !
tention TO the dead or dying, but sit
there on their launches, hoping for re-
venge until the last one dies. AS drove 1
of peccaries will in ten seconds tear q
grizzly bear into such minute fragments I
that you can scarcely find a piece Of /
bone two inches long after the cere-
mony is over, you can imagine what /
show hunter would have in meeting
hostile group Of them But unInolcsted
a drove of peccaries is as harmless az
drove of sheep, except toward bears or
mountain lions You may pass
within ten feet OF a drove Of
these vindictive little animals. and
!
any hostile intent unless you are fool
sh enough TO commit some overt act
Then your friends will wonder all their
ives whatever could have become of
you- The peccary, for some reason,
iraws the line at bears and mountain
ions II you are looking for either Of
he latter and find peccaries, change
FOUR base You will find neither griz-
liz, silver Zip, brown or black bears,
lor mountain lions within miles Of any
ange where pecearies are feeding.
When Il comes 70 being the king Of
American beasts the peccary holds the
,cepter.
The peccary-i mean the white
ipped psccary, the only one that trav-
Is in droves, the other one. The col
AIRED psccary. being shy and harmless
nd going only in pairs-ts odd ia every
way. Physically. a. well as morally. !
le seems % d az abnormal sort Of
reature- lie has The general appear
nee and habit Of the hog. but The boots
I'D three stoEazchs Of the cow. On his
'ack bc has a gland which s@cretes
musk, and three minutes after peeczry
) killed its hesh viii be entirely i'm
with the secrstIon Jus.
THAT tbs composite construction Of liz
eccary IL soT-s "Reminiscences % the
og, the cow and the rnuSsTss-ao one .
eeEs 20 have discovered - yet Ia: :
Dc thing "a certain the p~ooAry 10
Juxh AID Absolutely without fear