Turning to discover what occasioned it, he was just in time to see a large boar cross the clearing and disappear into the bamboos on the further side.
Taking his rifle from the little Shan he set off in pursuit.

It was no easy task, for the jungle in that neighbourhood was so dense that it was well nigh impossible to make one's way through it.

At last, however, they hit upon a dried up _nullah_, and followed it along, listening as they went to the progress the boar was making among the bamboos on their right.

Presently they sighted him, crossing an open space a couple of hundred yards or so ahead of them.

On the further side he stopped and began to feed.