The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-11-19

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hNge HEN the great navigator and explorer Cap
w tain Cook. made his historic voyages in the
w live stock for food. Among the animals
some large English hogs. and few of these
were landed North Island OF the New Zealand do
nnion and escaped into the forest In hundred
7ears stock has undergone great change. has re-
5erted to Il state wilder and ercer than the orig
nal one. perhaps and makes the finest of big game.
rhe white bushmeu of the North Island call these
hogs Captain Cooks" 'razorbacks. and the Maore
name them "rongotntes.'
Good luck only kept from being ripped to pieces
By OF them in of the hunts In which partlcl-
pated in 1902 in the ToranakI district and acquired
very wholesome respect for them as game fighters
md dangerous opponents
Both male and female develop curved tusks
hat arc both longer and sharper than those of the
famous wild boarS Of Europe, northern Africa and
India. and the beasts larger more rangy and are
swiftcr ] have the uskS Of the which nearly did
for and my horse and they seven and one.
half inches on the outside. while l have seen them
mounted the habmcnts OF Maori tohunca or
priests when they measured nine Inches
While III the shoat age the wild hog Is compelled
TO w up roofs turn over stones, toss aside small fallen
trees and do other things that give him ants
snaiIs. nuts, fungi and other food and this de
vcops tho rnclsors in the lower jaw till even
ycarold VIII have very presentable arms OF offence
and defence.
The older boarS and sows, following some natural
instinct grind out the Inner sides OF triangular
tips of the tusks until the points sharp tho
points of + fc blades and the edges of the ground
portion have cutting capacity that Is amazing. Put
wo or three hundred pounds OF ferocious brnwn be-
ind pnr Of tusks ground out In this fashion and
ne hunter faces very dangerous brute,
Though little known the outside world the sport
,g New Zealanders very fond of this sport and
ow and then expert pig stlckers from Indie from
Egypt or the Soudan. for the part British army
Accrs. go to New Zealand to try the sport I have
heard of them fail to admit that the Captain
ook of North Island Is the prince of them all In
zht
Fifty years ago these pigs found all over the
Hand, from latitude 81 south to 10 south but the
ftuers are driving them away from the plantations
The Maors have been eating quantities Of them
nr food, and every time big tract Is mndc the SUBJ
)ect of numbering operations the first thing the bush
called upon do Is to drive the rougotutcs
away. Ii is not pleasant to have peaceful gang
laborers armed only with and axes called upon 10
fight two or three beasts Of donkey engine power
around the front with hooked daggers The result is
that the pigs have retreaed slowly vast tracts
OF virgin bush in md about Mount Egmont in tho
Taranaki district. in the Eamsnuwa of the Hawkes.
Bay country In tho Raukumara OF the Waia Pu dis
ct, around the great Lake Taupa and In the region
from Mongonui In the extreme north south to Ota-
matea
The hunting which 1 most enjoyed was In the will.
derness OF Taranaki the eastern slopes of Mount
Egmont. between New Plymouth and stratford One
can always find Captain Cook there and one can
always get hard ride and good fight
Comrades of the Fray.
The first requisite is strong. feet horse that Is