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THE SPORT or RAJAHS

?ii

The

Sport
of

Rajahs

LIEUT.-GEN. R. S. S. BADEN- POWELL,
F.R.G.S.

TORONTO:

George N. RIorano & Company. Limited

1900

Entered according to Act uf flip Parliament of Cannda. in tho
year one thousand nine hundred, by (iKORGE N. Moraxo
* Company, Limited, at the Dejiartment of Apiculture.

THE SPORT OF RAJAHS

ill the

0RANI5

nUiire.

Ill the snuking-ro^^m at XoiTeye
Court, the other night, wo had a
great pig-eticking- " buck."

As is usual \vh..re a f e ,v Britons are
gathered together, sevt-al of the party
had visited India and knew something
of the subject, but it struck me forci-
bly how ignorant, as a rule, are home-
keeping sportsmen of this and kindred
Eastern sports.

They e-em to understand that some
?'ort of sunshine of sport lies behind
the veil of distance which separates
England from India, but it is only oc-
casionally that a ray breaks through
the cloud-in the shape of a book or
article— and gives them a glint of the
glamour that lies beyond. India, in
the matter of sport, has stood the test
of time far better than any of her
rivals. In early ages India and Am-
erica proved equally attractive to ad-
venturous sportsmen. But in America
bison, grizzly, deer, and Redskin came
to be gradually and effectively wiped
out under the deadly bead-drawing of
" Old Rube " and his kind.

Then arose South Africa as a rival,
and although her day has been a happv
one, its sun is setting; ere the next

THE HPORT OF K4.IAIIM

century has well begrun, advancing
civilization and improved breechload-
ers will have cleared off the elephant,
rhino, lion, and buck that have made
-Africa so happy a huntingr-ground
these past glxty years.

Yet India still maintains her head
of game, and bids fair to do so for
many years to come. From the North,
■With its Oves ammon and poll, bears
and ibex, to the South, with its tiger,
buffalo, sambur, and boar, -the sports-
man finds game worthy of his steel,
In addition to abundance of the lesser
kind of buck and bird, and flsh and
fowl. Buit, as an old doggerel has it.

The sport that beats them o'er and o'er
Is (that wherein we liunt the boar.

Pig-sticking is the acknowledged
king of Eastern sports, and there are
many reasons why it should and must
be so.

For one thing, i-t demands the assist-
ance of the horse, and this in itself
commends it more particularly to the
Anglo-Saxon race. Then it Is one of
the few sports in which the hunter is
almost alw.ays aesoclated with others
of his kind. In most Wg-game ex-
peditions the shooter Is attended only
by a few trackers or beaters— more
guns would spoil sport; and, although
there may be, and is, a certain charm
for a time in such solitary life, yet

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THE HPORT OF RAJAHS 7

eventually the sportsman cannot but
long for companionship of his fellows
In his eveningr camp. Nor Is it good
for a man to become accustomed to
a solitary life; Englishmen are al-
ready misanthropical and reserved
enough in all conscience, without such
further draining, in pig-atlcking, on
the other hand, -the hungers live, and
move, and hunt in parties; and yet
mdlvidual excellence is as necessary
as ever to success, while it gains the
additional spice born of friendly riv-
alry with one's fellows.

Again, the risks and chances, which
after all form a great part of the
charm of most wild sports, are In pig-
sticking incomparably greater than
those In ordinary tiger-shooting; that
is to say, tiger-shooting from an ele-
phant, for I do not look on that ear-
ned out on foot as anyi ,| g but fool-
hardiness, except under special cir-
cumstances.

Moreover, the quarry Is not only fast
and crafty, but he Is also plucky, pow-
erful, and cruel; he enters fully into
the spirit of the chase, and he will
generally give you a good fight as well
as a good run for your money.

That pig-stlcking has an affinity to
the sport of all true British sports-
men-viz.. fox-hunting-cannot be de-
nied, but that there exists a necknand-
reck resemblance between them is not

8 TIIK MI'OltT 0|- ItA.l ill,<4

SO easy to see. Yet much midnight
oil and gas, lirjuiJ and tobacco smoke,
have been consumed in ountry-houae
billiard-roomsi over the disicussion and
comparison of their respective merits.
As a matter of faot, pig-atickiny may
equally claim an affinity wMh polo .and
with racing. And to the glorious at-
tractions of these it adds a taste of
the bes't of all hunt?— namely, the pur-
suit, with a good 'veapo i In your hand,
of an enemy whom you want to kill.
In pig-sticking every man rides to
hunt, whereas in fox-h-miing the ma-
jcrity (.although for some occult rea-
son they will seldom own to it) hunt
to ride. The firsit part of a pig-slick-
ing run partakes rather j.f the nature
of a point-to-polr.t race, since each
man is endeavouring to be first -to
come up with the pig, and so to gain
the honours of the run; and, while
keeping one eye on the object in view,
he has to keep the other on the doings
of his rivals, so far as the elation of
a glorious gallop will alh^w him.

When -the " first spear " has been
■won, the dodging and fuming and
Quick rallies required for fighting the
bear have no little resemblan.ce to the
g-alloping melee of the polo-field, till,
with your worser passions roused as
the grizzled old tusker pits himself
against you, you meet charge with
charge, and, blind to all else but the

THE NPOKT or It A.l.il|>>

strong: and angered foe b^^fore yuu.
with youi- good sp-Mi- in your hand,
you ruKh for blood with all the ecstasy
of a tight to tht death. And then : —

All's blood, and <ltist, iiiid gruutod curses.

Well— thi.s is a difteren't thing from
the pleasm-able enjoyment to be
derived from a gallop with hounds in
a peaceful Engli.sh country. Yet in
the Indian sport— for all its excitement
—you do not get the home surround-
ings, the stretching gallop over fences
and grass, the keen air, the neighbour-
ly pageant, and all the halo of Old
Knglishness that go to make fox-hunt-
ing the lovable sport it is. Indeed it
is only after testing other sports that
you really appreciate to the full the
beauty of this more homely one.

I suppose that in all the notable
events of a man's life he remembers--
his fir.st better than any subsequent
experience. On me personally my first
hog-hunting day is very indelibly im-
pressed; not that it was a specially
c\entful day as hog-hunting days go.
but the novelty o fthe sport appealed
to me very forcibly, and the picture
remains. I Bee now the eunny yellonv
grass jungle, and the brown, strong-
shadowed coolies beating through it
with their discordant jangle of crie«s
and drums. Suddenly a "sounder"
of smallish pig tumble out and file

THE MPORT OF RAJAHS

away across the open. My first view
of wild pig, and a most disappointing
one! Was this, then, the " miffhty
boar" they talked of bo much? But
a moment later a form, that at first
looked like that of a donkey, caught
my eye as ue stood surveying the
country from the edge of the Jungle.
ThiB was a boar. He was watching
one of our keerieet beglnnena rest-
lessly hovering about in a way that
would have successfully headed back
any timid-minded animal; but this
boar was an old warrior; with an
inquisitive look he ateipped into the
open and trotted towards our trio; a
moment later he started into a louping
gallop with ears pricked forward and
head low, and before our friend could
manage to turn his spear in the
enemy's direction the pig had dashed
him, and had sent eteed and rider
rolling in the dust. Then he turned
in, cut his horse's legs from under
with a knowing shake cf his head,
and trotted gaily back to the cover,'
whence all further persuasion failed
to move him.

Later on a party of us, all grIflSna,
got away after a full-sized pig; m
turn we managed to get up to him
and to plant our spears In his body
and back; but we planted and left
them there a.s beginners are prone to
do, BO that in a few minutes our pig

\t.

THE SPORT OF RAJAHH

Bomewhat resembled the fretful por-
cupine or a giant pinouehlon, while
we could only ride near him empty-
handed. Whenever he faced ue we
fled, not exactly from fear, but from
a desire to save our teeth and noses
from the leaded ©pear-butts that nod-
ded and ©wayed above him. Finally,
getting tired of the sport, he opped
a epear, which enabled us to give him
Ms coup de grace. And then, to our
horror, we discovered that he was not
a "he," but a "she," after all! And
so heinous a crime is the killing of a
BOW that we swore to keep our misad-
venture dark, although we had every
excuse for our mistake, since she look-
ed all over like a boar and, as is ofent
the case with barren sows, carried
tushes. The crime happened many
years ago, but the shame of it has
hung over my life ever since, and now
in confessing to it openly fo rthe first
time I feel a heavy cloud Is lifted from
my conscience.

Among the several spears hanging
In honourable retirement on my wall
there Is one whose shaft is split for
some three out of its six feet of
length. And by that split there hangs
a tale.

Two of us were out In camp to-
gether, more for shooting than for pig-
sticking; still we had our horses and
spears with us. Our tents were pitch-

THE HPOHT OF KA.IABIM

ed in a delightful spot on the hig-h-
wooded bank of the Jumna. Close to
us lay our hunting-ground, rough grass
country with occasional strips of thick
jungle and frequent " nullahs " or dry
watercourses. A preliminary glance
at the ground overnight revealed signs
of pig— in acres of upturned earth— so
abundantly that we were forced to
forego our shooting for the first day
in favour of trying for a boar instead.
Thus the early dawn found Naylor
and myself posted at the point of one
of the covers*, while the coolies began
to beat it from the farther end. Wait-
ing in a state of keen expectancy, we
could hear their shouts drawing
slowly nearer and nearer, and our
horses' hearts were beating quick and
tremulous between our knees.

Suddenly both horses fling round
their heads with ears pricked; they
are trembling in every limb with ex-
citement. There he stands-not thirty
yards from us— a grand grey boar with
yellow curling tushes, and his cunning
savage little eye glistening in the
broad morning sunlight. He is listen^
ing to the distant sounds of the beat-
ers, and does not see us. We— scarce
daring to breath-sit motionless as
statues, with all our eyes, all our
senses fixed on him. He moves a few
paces forward, and pauses again to
listen. Will he never go?

■~-S*M

THi: SIMHCT or It.i.lAIlM

At last an extra loud chorus from
the approaching line decides him;
he su-ing-s round, trots for a few paces',
and then brealcs into a rough tumbling
oanter away across the open.

Now we cautiously gather up our
reins, slide our feet home, and pre-
pare to follow as soon as he has got
Bufficiently far from the cover as not
to be tempted to double back on
finding himself hunted. It is a case
of Mr. Jorrocks counting twenty-one
very much drawn out, till Naylor at
length gives the word to go, and we
bound away together after the great
louping form now distant a good
quarter of a mile away over the
yellow grass. Our horses are mad
keen for the fray, and as one tears
through the fresh cool air all bodily
weigh! seems to leave one's extre-
mities and to be concentrated into a
great heartful of elation. One realises
then how good it is to be alive. On we
go with little to check our pace but an
occasional grip to fly ; .resently, how-
ver, my horse begins to show that,
whatever my own impressions may be
he, ait any rate, does not realize any
material change in my actual avoirdu-
pois, ,and I gTadually find myself drop-
ping behind Naylor in the race. Near-
er and nearer we draw to the pig, and
at last Naylor turns his .spear (we are

THE aPORT OF KAJAHH

riding with the short or over-hand
spear) ready to take the first blood.

But there's many a slip. The old pig
4s still cantering along in his deliber-
ate yeit far-reaching stride, looking to
a novice as though he had not seen us;
but (he knows, his ears are laid back,
and one eye or the other Is continuousily
glancing behind him to watch our
moves.

At last Naylor's chance comes. Closer
and closer ho edges to the boar; an ex- '
tra spurt, and he is nearly on to him.
The boar gives a half- turn to the right,
and quick as ithought Naylor's horse
has turned with him—but the boar's
half-turn is but for one stride; In the
next he T^ihips round at a right angle
to his former course, and Naylor's
spearhead dives bloodless into the sand
a yard behind him. Riding twenty
yards behind Naylor I am able to turn
my horse more rapidly on to the new
direotion, and I gain a- good start by
cutting the corner to head my quarry.
As I approach his intended line, the
boar cocks his ears, alters his course
a point towards me, and, as though pro-
jected by some hidden spring, is sud-
denly close under my horse's girths. My
speai^polnt is Just dow^n in time; by
good luck, rather than good manage-
ment, it plunges In bdtween his shoul-
der-blades, and I crash it down with
all my force, while my horse cleverly

TMK Sl-OKT or RAJAHS 15

iunips th« snorting monster. But the
spear I3 Jammed In the boar. aiS as he

hand, and staggers onward with the
sha.t standi „,,^, Nor d^s he .'o'

lor h«L ' '''^^^ ^^ "P' ^"<^ ^hen Nay.
Lin T" ^^''^ ^""" ^^"^' '"tent J^
K"l. the enraged old brute turn^

staunchly toward, him. and With Iv";
bnstie pricked, and tushe« chapping

2yZ'sT^''' ''^ enemy. %u^;
frl^^iten J^ ' '^'''' "*^^"^ ^yes and
«nd uill not face this fearsome foe
For a moment the pig marks the man's

discommu^ and then turns to Zm
»y It. At a sturdy trot he pursues his

l^J'^oT '''' '""^^^ '--ing"Ta'J
nLv^>; ,^""^^^^e, and yet again, does
Naylor try a fresh attack, always with
the same result. Bach defeat, how-

Tto 'r.^r^^' ''^ ^°^^ -"^h -aT.

er to his refuge, so as a last resoairce I
Uke over Naylor's spear and press with
all the speed I can command to over-
lap J f ''"^' ^^ ^^ *>^'t twenty
yards to go When I -am on him. He
flies along. „or deigns to turn. Ah
friend. I have thee now upon the hipl'
I close With him. and Jam the spear
down, fiercely, on his burly ,back; the
spearhead slips aside. Again I try. with
Ike result, and an instant later the
thorny bushes close behind him and
bar my farther way.

THE !«POKT «r KAJAIIK

We quickly make our plans, and.
posting- ourselves en vedette on either
side of the cover in which he hides, we
watch against his least attempt at es-
cape.

Presently t)ie coolies join us, and
while one groes back to the camp for
a fresh spear for me, we get the blunt
one fined upon a local sharpening-
stone. A sraterul interval of refresh-
ment, and then, rearmed and rested,
we set the beaters on to drive hini
forth once more. But this is no easy
job. He cares not for their drums
and threats, but when they near him
charges and breaks through their
line, to nestle into some thick bush
behind them. They turn again and
treat him to an infernal serenade.
Suddenly their monotonous yelling
takes another tone; there is a con-
fused babble of talking, a hush, rnd
then a succession of somewhat more
coherent shouts, from which we can
gather that "Old Buldoo is killed by
the boar." The beating ceases, and
the coolies come huddling out of the
bushes carryinng one o ftheir number
between them. Of course he is not
killed, nor anything like it; but hi.g
friends hope that he is, seeing in his
decease a possible division among
them of eighty rupees consolation
money from us sahibs. Poor Buldoo
^ias, however, a horrid circular gash

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THE xiPOItr OF KA.IAIIS 17

Inside the thigh, which has liriod a
flap of flesh from a suflicient dopth
to show the bone. Such a wound on
a white man would make a ghastly
show, but not so on the darker
Plindu skin, nor indeed is there
much flow of blood. Such as there
is we .soon stop, and, using- the
needles and silk, carbolic, and com-
press from the handy little St. John's
Ambulance wallet in our belt, we
soon have him well patched up and
homeward bound, comfortably in-
stalled upon a n.itive bedstead from
a neighbouring melon-gardener's hut.
Then for the first time my shikari
steps forward, grinning, and holding
in his hand the spear I had lost in
the pig. The boar, in charging
Buldoo, had brushed close past
himself, so that he was able to gnp
the spear with both hands and to
wrench it out. But the shaft was
split beyond repair. Once more the
coolies form to beat the cover, and.
whether it is some innate pluck or a
stoical ^uibmi.ssion to fate that guides
them, one cannot but admire the
way in which they proceed, unarmed
and on foot, to tackle a brute who
has ten to one the best of them in
the Jungle. Naylor. too. dismounts,
and is going in with them, spear in
hand, leaving mo to ride the boar
should he break; but at thi,s moment

THE SPOKT OF n^.lAHO

excltM shouting from a shepherd n„
a neighbouring knoll Inform? us ,ha^
our w„y „uarnr has token- adv^n^e

arp nn *r , * ^^^ seconds we

friend oblf """' ^"' *^^"^° -« see our

^^l, ; ^^"'ckshank used so expres-
slvely to describe it^ " ni,» «=^*Pres-

bag tumbling aloni'enf ^ "^"P^^"
TT/^^ „ a-iongr end over end "

bu L7rL"T "^ ""^^ " '^■°"™=

""c an all too short bust in the onpn
and again Naylor forges well aher^f

tTglveTsT 'u ''' '' ^" - »^"-o-

are^overtakl^; IT= ?^" ^^ «"^^ -«
^tr./i ^ ^*"^' *^^ stiffens his

^trlde. and. dodging in his course foz a
moment or two. he suddenly tu ns
and comes at Navlor <■ m,^ .t
Of bricks " " wi*^ ^ thousand

But hlV ^ "'"''^-^ ^^ bis eye."

But he has not reckoned on the

for T^r '^^^' ^"^ ^ he bounds
for the horse with his head on one s"de
to deliver the ea^sh o* kj

tusk the spear-point catches him fair
n the Shoulder and rolls him over "n

mediately, and. furious with rage
turns and comes at once for me He
Is a grand specimen of sturdy savage
Pluck as he bristles up large towards
me, but he gives one little time for
a^lmiration as he plunges headlong at
the horse. A good point into his back
scarcely, stops the impetus of his rush

THE KPOKT OF KA.IAII8

and a quick upward twist of his head,
as if merely to look at me, results in
an ugly slit in my horse's shoulder.
But the be r himself is now sorely
stricken. Close to him is one of those
curses of the Indian hunting countries,
a deep "nullah" or dry watercourse
some twenty feet wide and ten feet
deep, with steep sides. Into this he
rlunges, and when we reach the edge
we see him creeping into the cover of
a big thorn-bush in the bottom. We
note that immediately above the bush
the sides have toppled in and
have completely blocked the ra-
vine. So, moving a few yards down
the bank, we dismount, leave our
horses, and scramble down, spear in
hand. Into the bottom of the nullah.
Then we advance shoulder to shoulder
towards the bush, and from a distance
of ten yards or so, we hurl two or
three clods into it. Presently there
is a rustle, and our friend quietly
sneaks out on the far side, trotting
lamely up the nullah till he finds his
road barred by the fallen walls. Then
he turns and faces us, his little eyes
sparkling red with rage, blood well-
ing and glistening down his shoulder,
his broad nose dry and dusty, and
blood and slime dropping from his
panting jaws. His picture is photo-
graphed on my mind, but the photo-
graph is an instantaneous one; for in

Tin: HP«KT OF Itt.lAII*^

a m.-mcnt „,ore his ears are pricked.

his n ane ,s on oncl. and ho comes

touauls us at a shambling trot; at live
J aids distance he changes fo a gallon
and rushes blindly at us. Our spoaS
^relow. there is a Shock, we are both
hurled back against the side or the
rav.ne. Then in the cloud of dust we
^ee the boar on his knees at our feet
boh .pears planted in his che«t and

houlder. He essays to rise, but falls
tc'ck upon his Side, and one more
spear-thrust into his heant finishes off
.!s game a bear as ever ran

It IS somethmg that 1. very good.

In regimental orders one evening
theie appeared the notice that thp regi-
ment was to parade, mounted, next
mormng at daybreak, carrying fu,

Immu'n'r"^^ ^"' ^^" -unCs'o/biank
ammunition per man; rations to go out
I'y cart; and. last but not least. " offi-
cers and troop sergeant-majors may
cairy hog-spears in place of swords"

n>s"lted. """""'"' '"' '^'"^'"^ ""''^'-^^y
The jungle, a largo tract of heavy
8-ma« and jhow (tamarisk) bu..h. was
a facked with all military precaution
'ind completeness.

. '^^^ I'esriment proceeded through it
in line at half-open files; patrols of
four officers each were posted or moved
vvell ,n advance of the line, s,o that

mt: Ni'oitT or ka.iaiih

vhon a boar was .sear?d by tha noise of
the approaching line, then one of these
patrolH nearest to hlni wonlrl ride after
him and endeavour to bring him to
account.

So succesKful was the operation that
in a short time each of the parties
was away after its separate boar. Still
pigs vv-ere seen to be running away
ahead of the line with no one to hunt
them, till the colonel, who had hither-
to been directing the operations gen-
erally, gave the order for certain non-
commissioned ofllcers to take patrols of
men wtth them and see what they
could do with their swords against the
pigs. In a short time several of such
panties were to be seen scouring across
country in full pursuit of the common
foe. To say that they enjoyed it
would in no way express their excite-
ment and delight.

They galloped hero, thoy galloped there,
Thoy fought, they swore, they sweated.

J ■'

In a word, they had a glorious time,
albei't when the " Hally " sounded the
bag— bej-ond those killed by the spear
parties— was not a large one. Still,
when all was over, the horses groom-
ed and fed, and the men at their din-
ners and free to talk, the babel in the
bivouac was almos-t ludicrous, since
every man at once was keen to tell his

THE HPOItT OF ItA.IAHM

tale of personal adven.ture with the In-
^ an plgr. Here one was mating how
hla troopmare. •• C " 16, had turned her
tall upon the advancing foe. and w'th
her lron-«hod heels had sent his front
eeth rattling down hla throat. And
there another, a budding Munchausen
was relating how he .tood the at-'
ack of not only one. but four bloom-
ITH^' ^" "' ^ ^^•" ^"«i how all
them off. It was a day that was talk-
ed of for months afterwards In the
regimen..; and though this one expert-
ence can have done no more than give
tne men a momentary taste of the
ecstasy of a fighting gallop, pig.gtick-
Ing IS nevertheless par excellence a

sustains his beat service qualities, and
stands without rival as a traiiilng-
school for officers: nor Is it ever likely
to languish for want of votaries so
^ong as boars and Britons continue to