The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-11-20
Caught Limb Just Above Him and
Swinging Out of the Way of the Mad
dened Animal
BY DERESLEY MORTON.

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ANFg HEN the great navigator and explorer. Cap
w J tain Cook. made his historic voyages In the
NAj southern ATTITUDES he carried quantity of
w I've stock for food. Among the animals
some large English hogs, and a few of these
we're landed on North Island OF the New Zealand do
ninion and escaped into the forest In one hundred
Joars stock has undergone great change. has
Terted state wilder and ercer than the orig
nal one perhaps and makes the finest of big game
rhe white bushmen of the North Island call these
hogs Captain Cooks" "razorbnckS." and the Maor3
name them "rongotutcs"
Good luck ouly kept me from being ripped to pieces
by of them In of the hunts In which partcI-
pated in 1902 In the Taranak district, and acquired
very wholesome respect for them game fighters
ind dangerous opponents
Both male and female develop curved tusks
ihat both longer and sharper than those of the
famous Wild bonrs of Europe northern Africa and
India, and the beasts larger. raugy and are
swifter have the tuskS OF the which nearly did
for and my horse and they seven and one.
half Inches on the outside. while have seen them
mounted on the habiliments of Maori tohunga or
priests when they measured nine Inches.
While In the shoat age the wild hog Is compelled
TO roots, turn stones aside small fallen
trees and do other things that give him to ants
snas, nuts. fungi and other food and this use de-
velops the ncIsors In the lower jaw till two
ycar-od Will have very presentnblc arms of offence
and defence.
The older boarS and sows following some natural
instinct grind out the inner sides of the triangular
tips of the tlsks until the points sharp ) the
points of fc blades and the edges of the ground
portion have cutting capacity that IS amazing Put
wo or three hundred pounds of ferocous Drawn be-
dnd pair OF tusks ground out In this fashion and
ne hunter faces very dangerous brute
Though little known TO the outside world the sport
'ig New zcalnnders very fond of this sport and
pw and then expert 'pig stlckcrs from Indie from
gypt or the Soudan. for the part British army
Hcers, go to New Zealand to try the sport have
1ver heard one of them faL ndm that the Captain
Ook OF North Island Is the prince OF them all 10 4
ght
Fifty years ago these pigs found all the
Hand. from latitude "a south TO 40 south, but the
ettlers driving them away from the plan lions.
fhe Maors have been eating great quantities OF them
or food, and every time big is made the sub
ect or numbering operations the 0rst thing the bush
men are called upon to do is to drive the rongotutes
away. 1t Is not pleasant to have peaceful gang OF
laborers armed only with and axes called upon
fight two three beasts OF donkey engine power
around the front with hooked daggers. Tho result
that tho pigs have retreaed slowly the tracts
OF virgin bush In and about Mount Egmout In tho
Taranaki district. in the Kaimanawa of tho Hawkes.
Bay country. IN the Rsukumera OF the Wala Pu dis
trlct around the great Lake Taupa In the region
from Mongonui In the extreme north. south to Ota-
matea.
The hunting which 1 enjoyed was in the will
derness of Taranald, the eastern slopes Mount
Egmont between New Plymouth and Strntford One
can always find Captain Cook there and one can
always get q hard ride and a good nght
Comrades of the Fray.
The nrst requisite Is strong, feet horse that Is
willing to break his neck If you willing TO break
yours. and the second is pig hating dog The aver
nge fox dog or hound Will turn tail before CAPTAIN
Cook and the wolf and deer bounds are easy victims
Tor the tusks Sporting dogs none too plentiful in
New Zealand and Is rather costly to Import dogs to