Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 100
therhfollowed, the active cow-ponies dodging at fullspeed among the spiny tree-trunks and hugecacti. When the game has once been put up,the run is not long. In spite of their tiny legsand feet, peccaries go very fast for a few hundredyards; but they are both short-winded and bad-tempered, and after… … Peccary.Av. height at shoulder, 20 in. It is easy to kill them with either a rifle orrevolver, although a man approaching them onfoot with a revolver must exerci.se caution unlesshe is a very good shot. Personally, I foundthe long rides through the semi-tropical land-scape, the sudden, headlong,…
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