196 WILD LIFE UNDER THE EQUATOR. 
What strange-looking animals! They had a long 
muzzle, and on each side there was a large warty protu- 
berance half-way between the nose and theeyes. These, 
and a singular sort of bristle, surround the eyes. The 
ears, which are long and ended in tufts of coarse hair, give 
the animal astrangeexpression. The bodies of the boars 
were of the color I have mentioned. 
On my return to the United States, in 1860, I gave a 
full description of this curious animal, and of many oth- 
ers I discovered, before the Boston Society of Natural 
History. I have always retained a pleasant recollection 
of my visit to that society, of its president, Professor Jef- 
fries Wyman, of its secretary, my friend Dr. Kneeland, 
and of many other members, who were very kind to me. 
But how to take away that meat? . We could by no 
possible means carry the meat of four wild boars. So 
myself and Malaouen were to keep watch and sleep in 
the forest while Querlaouen would go and fetch the peo- 
ple to assist us. 
This Potamocherus albifrons is a great jumper. I have 
seen no antelope that could leap as it does; one day 
I saw three of them leap over the Ovenga River, the dis- 
tance being thirty or forty yards. It was the dry season, 
and one of them fell into the water. The bank from 
which they sprung was much higher than the opposite 
one. 
