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Title: Jungle trails and jungle people : travel, adventure and abservation in the Far East
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Whitney, Caspar, 1862-1929
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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burstfrom the jungle ahead of the beaters. It may beanything from a mouse deer to a tiger. Pig-sticking would be impossible in Malay.Primeval forest of great, smooth tree trunks risestraight into the air fifty or sixty feet beforesending out their canopy tops that scarcely permitsunlight to sift through. Far below grows a tan-gled mass of palms, ferns and small trees boundtogether by rattan, cane and climbing vines of suchstrength and profusion that the adventurer mayadvance only by frequent use of the knife. Water-soaked by the shoulder-high, dripping, coarsegrass and torn by multitudinous thorn-armedbushes, he cuts his way slowly, even painfully.Needless to say such country is not ridable.Where agriculture has made its demand this jun-gle has been cleared, and tapioca, coffee, rice, pine-apples and every tropical thing flourishes in luxu-riant abundance; and when, as happens, land hasbeen abandoned, a secondary growth of shrubs andsmall trees, and high coarse grass, lalang, speedily
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THE WILD BOAR AND HIS PUGNACIOUS COUSINS. i. Texas Peccary. 2. Babarussa. 3. Wild pig L-f Borneo, Sui 7. Wild boar. Sits scrofa. 4. Indian pig, Malay, Sus cristntus. 5. Me\i an Pi 6. Collared Per. ary. IN THE SWAMPS 183 covers all signs of attempted reclamation. On theedges of such country are favorite ranges for wildpig,which,after feeding at night,find here the thickscrub near soft ground, where they can wallowand lie up during the day. Thus in Malay huntingboar becomes a matter of beating them out of thesethick jungle patches, and the native dogs, thoughserviceable after deer for which the Malays trainthem, lack the courage needed to dislodge a stub-born or pugnacious boar. English residents haveexperimented quite a bit in breeding for a gooddog; but nothing very notable has evolved, andthe most dependable one seems to be got by cross-ing a pariah (mongrel) bitch with an importedharrier. As a collection of mongrels, the dogs Aboo Dingot together for our pig hunt were unbeatable; as

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