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it to the lesser Peccari. The liquor which flows out of the 

 gland is equally offensive as in the latter, and is peculiar to both 

 male and female. They bear only two young ones, frequently only 

 one ; but they are more difficult to tame than the collared Peccari. 

 I do not think that any attempts have been made to domesticate 

 either one or the other species. The Indians tame sometimes the 

 young ones, but never with the avowed purpose of breeding ; 

 although I have little doubt that their meat would vastly improve by 

 regular attention ; and after two or three generations they would be 

 familiarized. There is no instance known of their having bred with 

 the European hog and produced an intermediate race. 



The white-lipped Peccari is equally indigenous at Paraguay as in 

 Guiana. It is called Kairuni by the Arawaks, Poinge by the Ma- 

 cusis, Ifure by the Warraus. 



Extracts from a Journal of the Mission which visited Bootan, in 

 1837-38, under Captain II. Boileau Pemberton. By W. Grif- 

 fith, Esq., Madras Medical Establishment. 



[Continued from p. 211.] 



April lOth. We descended to a small nullah just below the castle, 

 and then commenced an ascent which lasted for three or four hours, 

 and which was generally moderately steep. On surmounting the 

 ridge, which was of an elevation of about 10,000 feet, we commenced 

 a long and uninterrupted descent along the course of a small tor- 

 rent (the path being w^ell diversified with wood and glade) until we 

 reached Woollookha, distant fourteen and half miles from Telagong. 

 About 1200 feet above this we came on rather fine wheat cultiva- 

 tion, among which two or three villages were situated. Above this 

 elevation we came on fine woods of oaks and yews, diversified with 

 swardy spots ; and on reaching the summit of the ridge an open 

 sward with beautiful rhododendron, birch, and juniper woods. Her- 

 baceous monocotyledons abounded here ; in fact the vegetation alto- 

 gether was very rich, and the first spring vegetation we had yet met 

 with. Gooseberries and currants were common from 9000 feet up- 

 wards : euphorbias, primroses, saxifrages, clematises, anemones, ra- 

 nunculuses, &c., were some among the many European forms that I 

 met with on this march. Near the summit, on the descent, a genuine 

 larch was observed, and lower down two species of poplar were very 

 common. The scenery was generally very beautiful. We passed a 

 delightfully situated Gylong village not much below the summit,, 

 and near Woollookha saw Symtoka, a rather large square building 



