All the while his teeth kept going like castanets, with a rapid champing sound.

I ran up close and killed him by a shot through the backbone where it joined the neck.

His tusks were fine.
The few minutes' chase on horseback was great fun, and there was a certain excitement in seeing the fierce little creatures come to bay; but the true way to kill these peccaries would be with the spear.

They could often be speared on horseback, and where this was impossible, by using dogs to bring them to bay they could readily be killed on foot; though, as they are very active, absolutely fearless, and inflict a most formidable bite, it would usually be safest to have two men go at one together.

Peccaries are not difficult beasts to kill, because their short wind and their pugnacity make them come to bay before hounds so quickly.