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Show D FIG IFE WITHTAWlt LZ "j!FlGHTl"KG for L Quickly .is I leaped to one side, the point of his tnV caught uiv put too ou the right knee with the danger-r.ns danger-r.ns upward thru-t. nnd I fHl the Ivory edge graze n,, flesh, while the ripping, tearing blow hurled me furthor out of his pdth, ami I foil on rny face. Hcrambllng m rny foot and up on tho stump Just ns he came back at mo witli lowered head. Tho dogs saved mo, for Wall, mil. th.-uch he had dropped to the ground, was not near enough. They fell on his flank- nod though h. did not turn away from me I bad n chance to leap u the ground and recover my spear. W aha nul w saying "Ulno" with great vigor and between time shouting Instructions to me to drive tho sf"oar home this time even If I did not strike the vital spot. Hy manoeuvring around the slump I got n position whore the blj: fellow could chargo me in a Rhort dis-taneo dis-taneo only nnd he lost no time In freeing himself from the dogs and making tho effort. Shaking himself like a dog. he loweroil his head nnJ plunged. P.raelng myself. I suddenly lowered the point of the turuhl and felt the heavy shook as It struck him deep In the very spot for which I had aimed. Even so. before he foil T was forced back two pace nnd the lashings of the slasher wore so badly sprung that It was of no more use to me that dav. lint I hi' bit fellow was dead, though the dogs, my hor.'-e. Wahu. nul and I nil had had a very close tall from hi Ivories A Terrifying Charge. A little later Cuptaln Mylcslng h.l a terrible encounter en-counter In Maungatnnlwn. with a far less fortunate ending. He and Tuatlul. a younger cousin of Warm-nul. Warm-nul. wore both mounted and were riding 1 mie alhc close of a hunt In which the party had become scattered. scat-tered. They woro hurrying, ns they wished to pet Into pinxl coin? ground before dark came down, and tho tired dogs wore trotting to heel. The scent of rongo-tute rongo-tute came strongly from the left, whore there was i the first cry from the terrier they let their big voices speak and came leaping high over the undergrowth, plunged down the ravine and up again nnd went by rue before I had my horso folly under way. I caught the pound of n crashing In the bush to thi right ns If several large animals were running there on parallel tracks and It was koou obvious that once more and I could mount nnd ride. In a llttlo while we were close on the dogs, and. following the custom, I dismounted, tethering my horse to the limb of a tree nnd proceeding on foot with my pe.ir. My heart gave a great bound when I topped n rock nnd saw, in a sort of turner formed by a groat burned-off burned-off tne and Its stump, n magnificent tu-ker at bay. He was facing the thr-e does, bis hind riuariers In the coign of advantage, and was making short charges at first one and then the other. One of the big dogs had n had gasn In his shoulder and was blooding profusely. pro-fusely. It was beautiful to ace the lightning Hko swing of the boar's hcu.l as he made his little rush and upward thrust to drive one of his curved Ivory daggers into a dog. The very notion expressed th power of tho blow and pave ft forecast of the execution execu-tion If he struck his marl; fairly. The Maori behind me was crying some Instructions In his uatlvc tongue, but I did not heed him; Instead, swinging my spear into readiness, I advanced to invite in-vite the charge which would give me my opportunity to plnnge the long blade Into the particular spot behind be-hind the head that would give the game Its ouletns. What the Maori was saying, ns I afterward learned, uas for me to rick my tree to climb before I made nay thrust. The Wicked Little Pig. Now the rongotute saw his now enemy, and. wllh a wicked little cry of rage, he charged, so swiftly and so viciously that he caught the terrier before the dog conld sidestep, nnd bowled him out of the way, but In bo doing diverted himself and shot by between me nnd the Moorl. going straight for my horse. The poor helpless animal lunged back to tear loose, but tho spring of the branch gave him no chanee of n breaking Jerk on the strap. Striking to rip the horse's Hank, the boar plunged Into the comb-it, but knocked the horse's logs from under him nnd for an Instant tliu two rolled together lu tho erass. The elasticity of MtFI OME Idea of What It Means to Face a Savage Little Creature That Knows No Fear and Has the Power of a Donkey Engine Behind' Its Razor Like Tusks hmMMMM, ' -Jilted dhf A fS$P: SmmjfW I Llmb a Overhang Tree Caught a Limb Just Above Him and Swinging Out of the Way of the Mad- l dened Animal 2r BY DERESLEY MORTON. fOpyrlL-hi. 131". t.) Ibo Nvw York IlrrnlJ Co. All rlhtii rffwrTi-J 1 WIIK.V the groat navigator and explorer. Captain Cap-tain Cook, made Ids historic voyages In the M.iithfrn lutitudes he carried, n quantity of live stork for food. Among the animals were some large English hogs, and a few of these ivero landed on Norili Island of the New Zealand do-ulnion do-ulnion and escaped Into the forest. In one hundred roars the stock his undergone a great change, has re-rerted re-rerted to a state eon wilder and fiercer than the oilg-nil oilg-nil one. perhaps, and makes the finest of big game. The while bushmen of the North Island call these hogs "Captalu Cooks" or "ra.orbacks," and the Maorlj name theiu "ronpolutes." flood lui k only kct me from being ripped to pieces by one of them in 0110 of the hunts In which I participated partici-pated In 10i2 In the TaranakI district, and I acquired i very wholesome respect for them ns game flghlers ind dangerous opponents. lioth male and female develop curved tusks :h.it are both longer and sharper than those of the famous wild boars of Europe, northeru Africa nnd India, and the beasts are larger, more rangy and are swifter. 1 have the tuks of the one which nearly did for ine and my horse and they measure seven nnd one-half one-half Inches on the outside, while I have teen them mounted ou the habiliments of Maori tonunga or m iosis when I hey measured nine inches. Vhlle In the shoat age the wild hog is compelled to rip up roots, turn over stuuos, toss aside small fallen trees and do other things that give him access to ants, snails, nuts, funjr! and other food, and this use develops de-velops the incisors la the lower jaw till eveu a two-year-old will have very presentable arms of offence nnd defence. The older boars and sows, following some natural !nsilnct, gviud out the limi-r sides of the triangular tips of the tu-Us UulJl the points nio as stmrp us the points of I '( blades and the ed'es of the crouud Vriiou have n cutting capacity that Is amazing. I'ut wo or three hundred pounds of ferocious brawn bedrid be-drid a pair of tusk.4 ground out lu this fashion and be hunter faces a very dangerous brute. Though little known to tho outside world, the xpnrr-ig xpnrr-ig New Zoalauders are very fond of this sport and ov and thou expert "pig stickers" from India or from fcypt or the Soudan, for the most part Itrltlsh army TScers, go to New Zealond to try the sport. I have ?ver heard one of them fail to admit that the Captain oolc of North Island Is the prince of them ail lu a Sht ,. rifty years ago these pigs were found nil over the ilund, from latitude 3-1 south to 40 south, but the ttUers are drlvlog them away from the plautatlous. he MaorLi have beeu eating great quantities of theiu tor food, and every lime a big tract Is made the sulj ject of lumbering operations the Orst thing the bush-ojcn bush-ojcn are called upon to do Is to drive the roogotutes away. It Is not pleasant to have a peaceful nang of laborers armed only with saws nnd axes called upon to light two or three beasts of donkey engine power umu-d arouud the front with hooked daggers. Tho result is that the pigs have retreated slowly to the vast tracts of virgin bush In nnd about Mount Egmout, lu tho Taranukl district. In the Kolmamiwa of the Ilowkes Day country. In tho lUukuoiara of the Wabi I"u district, dis-trict, arouud the great Lake Toupn and In the region from Moogonul lu tho extreme north, south to Ota-matea. Ota-matea. The hunting which I most enjoyed was In the wilderness wil-derness of TaranakI, on the eastern slopes of Mount Egmont, betweeu New IMymouth and Stratford. One can always find a Captain Cook there and one can alwayB Ket a hard ride aud a good Dght. Comrades of the Fray. The first requisite la a strong, fleet horse that L willing to break his neck If you are willing to break youra, and Ui secoud la a pig bating dog. a he average aver-age fox dog or hound will turn tHll before a Captain Cook, and the wolf oud deer hounds are easy victims for the tusks. Sporting do.-s are none too plentiful in Not Zoilnnrl nnd 't ! rnM"r p.ictlv to Imr.rt (o"i to ''iff J be slashed up in the bush, so the mongrel the bush-men bush-men call a cattle dog Is the best lie Is the slzo of a collie, but has a short coat and a long nose that Is quite blunt at the end. What his origin was I cannot Imagine, but this dog Is the one that tho sDorp men are using more than any other. The supposition Is that firearms are not used against the pigs because lhat would be unsportsmanlike, but I think that the truth Is that tho bushmen discovered that Drearms were far loss effective than tho spear that every pig hunter now uses. It would bo a wonderful won-derful shot who could hit in a vital spot n charging boar (surrounded by dogs with such a percentage of certainty that he would not get ripped up lo short order. lu the first place, the death Is nearly always In a dense thicket, nt very close quarters, where firearms are not nearly so convenient as steel blades, nnd where shooting from cover Is almost Impossible. The standard weapon, therefore. Is the turuhl or short spear made by lashing a bushm.m's slasher to n choice staff six feet in lenpth. The steel Is about fifteen Inches long nnd has the weight thrown toward the tip, which turns up with the same hook seen In a Turkish slipper. Those are the knives with which a Maori will fight his way throimh miles ot bush. Ihere ore seven cuts that the skilled knife man uses in making a path, ami so peculiar is the polso of tho (lasher thai bushmen are very frequently the victims of accidental cuts from their own knives The day of my best fight we were up before dawn riding away froui the little pa where we had stopped the night before after a breakfast of hut kumara cakes and koaieke dough made from the dried and powdered fern root, washed down vvlti excellent let. from our own canisters. In addition to the three of us who hud made up our party In Wellington there were four Maori bushmen cm foot and three dogs two of the cattle dog sort and oue smaller mongrel "terrier. The Captain Cook has a' very peculiar odor, which even nostrils dulled by civilization can make out easily ot some distance, even long after the pig has pas-sed. Some sheepmen had reported the duy before that there wero several on the slopes of a spur some miles off to the north. We picked our way out of the emirous of the pa, watched by the several scores Maori Inhabitants of the place, till we were beyond the kumaru fields and had struck the main trail up the mountain. Just as the sun was corning up old W'aha-uul. the chief guide, drew his mat back from his left shoulder aud poised his sJushcr as he stood ou tiptoe, peering foiward o er the undergrowth for an objective poiut. Whtn he had settled on our course be begau to cut a path and It was amazing to see the progress he made. Wo walked our horses tlowly behind him till at last he led us lino a great glade, a "clearing." luat had beeu caused by tome forest tire two or three years before. Here we went forward and upward rapidly for a half mile and then one of the younger men stepped to the front and begun to carve out a nail that led to another an-other clearing. Seeking the Captain Cook. Now we exteuded slightly, the Maoris taking the flauks with the dogs worklug before us. I'crhaps for half au hour we forged ahead, at times entirely lost to sight of each other, and theu fcuddeuly old Waha nul (stopped, lifted his head aud begun to snltr, and almost at the iime instant tho mongrel teriler gave tougue nnd was off to the left. On my right was a bad ravine and my friend were on the other -1lc of It. Tho entile dogs wore with them, but at Jf- " 1 Had Missed Him deep bny among tho papa lock. The dogs plungvw Iti at once, and It was apparent lu a few seconds' (hue that the bay was n blind hole aud the quarry u cornered before it had had any chance whatever to ; run. Tethering their horses, they cut their way more j or loss easily Into the bush and found that the place , where the pigs had been was a sort of natural amphl i theatre save In wet weather, when It was filled with ; the waters of a torrent that at this lime was no rnoR I than a trickling stream running In a fall over the rooks at the back. From the signs more than one plj j had been stirred, and it waa not long before a younc hour and n sow were made out moving along the rocks in the fringe of bush trying to find an outlet ora . pln e where they could climb the sides cf the bay. Captain Mj leslnb' instructed the Maori to take the one while he took the other, and, cutting their way, they advanced, constantly ready for the charge. The hour cume first, nnd My losing speared him nicely, noticing no-ticing as he did so that the dogs were plunging ond lunging In the bush to the left of him. He was Just about to withdruw his spear when there was a tcrrlflc charge from a big old pig who had been In the shadow. The Maori was busy with the sow and wai some fifty feet away. The charge caught the officer entirely unprepared aud the boar's tusk, catching blm In the thigh ripped blm up to the waist and hurleO him to the ground, lie got to his feet, snatched tif spear from th body of the first boar and tried to et the big pig on the ivturn charge, but he was unable to act wlrh surliclent quickness in his wounded state and in a moment more was face down on the locks witl another terrible rip lu his chest. Tualinl rushed to the rescue aud drove his knif Into the boar's heart aud dragged Captalu Myh-hiJ : into the open He was unconscious and In a pretty , bad state from loss of blood and from Kluxk when tte ) Maori brought him Into tho pa, tied in the saddle, but j skilful native surgery kept life lu his body tUI to could be tuken aboard a schooner lu Wnangaroa Bay. lie n covered ultimately, but he w ill never hunt ogJlo-He ogJlo-He has a limp uud a lame shoulder. i He Is but one of the many w ho have felt tae tuti of the Cuptalu Cooks, and serious Injuries and fatalities fa-talities are not unusual; In fact, it has ofteu hn stated that the percentage of i,,ss of life is higher tiao In Hun huntlug, and Home of the verv best spurtsmW, : who have ever come to New Zealand have ntuked ti roiigotutoclo.se to the MhIhv soladang and the Afrt"'"', buflalo. admittedly the most dangerous beasts to buu' tn all the w.-rld. my best speed could not equal that which the game ami the dogs wero making. Straight up the slope went the chase, with my friends halloing in the rear as they .sought a place to round the ravine. Now the pigs had gone over the ridge and the nolsj of the dogs wus growing fainter. I put spurs to my horse aud leaned lov over the pommel of my English cross couu-try couu-try saddle as 1 shot under the low boughs of tho trees only raising my head to get the proper seat wheu my hor.se took fallen logs and cluuips of rocks. I had struck a trail and my horse was as glad as I to find clear going. It was a mad, mad half hour's ride with the ooustant danger of hivlug my bralus knocked out against the limb of an overhanging tree or of being hurled against a trunk If 1 lost my seat lu the jumps. When I reached the crest the dogs had cornered a Captain C'ook about a mile down tho other side of the slope and I shit ahead. Now the riding was something to make a man's hair rise when he thiuks of It lu rold blood, but with the fever of tho chase In his veins n hunter will take many chances and thluk nothing of thorn. I remember thinking of the difference between such a chase and the tame riding through tho grass nnd brakes after pigs In other lands, where one 'overtakes the animal nnd stoops and lances it or cuts short Its career with a rapier or sabre. In a short time tho growth blocked the way. The dogs and the pigs had gone through with scarcely lessened les-sened speed, but I Wondered how they had done It. I was hard at work with my slasher making a way for myself to the scene of conflict, when one of tho Maoris onnie up nn, together we took turns In cut-tine cut-tine our way through to a p-iut where lie could run the limb bellied the hoise to rcgalu his feet and bo leaped aside from a short charge, giving the dogs tiuio to get nt the pig's Uauk, and oue of the cattle do-s burled his teeth In the high rump, causing the game to Hum aud charge. The dogs got out of the way and the big tusker went crashing on down the slope. Hy this time two others of the Maoris had arrived aud one of my friends was galloping up. I fouud my horse uninjured, but very nearly unmanageable un-manageable from fright, and 1 mounted nnd took up the chase once more. It was at least a half hour of terrific riding before the dogs brought the pig to bay once more. This lime It was against the base of a low cliff with a wall of undergrowth before It. The Maoris were not up. and, though 1 was very tired by this time. I set to work lo cut through to -the slope. L'.arely had I got into tho open space before the cllil when old W'aha-nul appeared, and this time I got tno caution to pick out my tree. It w,8 well that I did so. We advanced to the nttark together, he n little to the rear. Separating to go arouud a stump, we came within the range of the wicked IKtle eves of the bo,jr. busily feuding oil tho dogs,. uUe"a bolt he darted for Waha-nul and the Maori, for all his age, leaped Into the air like a nnuikey, caught n Ilrnb Just above him nnd swunsr up out of tho way Just as tho maddened animal shot under blm. The force of the charge but led the boar in a mass of very thkk vlues and the dogs were at him instantly. With a quickness and power that won my admiration he tore free from his entanglement and whirled on them, only to fiud me facing him. On he came with a grunt of rage. My turuhl slid alonu bis shoulder. I had mlsse.i: |