VLACKE VARK.—Phacocherus Athiopicus. 
This animal is not devoid of sagacity, as was proved by Gordon Cumming: “I 
selected the old boar for my prey, and immediately separated him from his comrades. 
After ten miles of sharp galloping, we commenced ascending a considerable acclivity, 
where I managed to close with him, and succeeded in turning his head towards my camp. 
He now reduced his pace to a trot and regarded me with a most malicious eye, his mouth 
a mass of foam. He was entirely in my power, as I had only to spring from my horse 
and bowl him over. I felt certain of him, but resolved not to shoot as long as his course 
lay in the direction of my waggon. At length, surprised at the resolute manner in which 
he held for my camp, I headed him; when, to my astonishment, he did not in the slightest 
swerve from his course, but trotted along behind my horse like a dog following me. This 
at once aroused my suspicions, and I felt certain that the cunning old fellow was making 
for some retreat, so I resolved to dismount and finish him. Just, however, as I had come 
to this resolution, I suddenly found myself in a labyrinth of enormous holes, the haunt 
of the ant-bear. In front of one of them the wild boar pulled up, and charging stern 
foremost into it, disappeared from my disappointed eyes and I saw him no more. I rode 
home for my men; and returning, we collected grass and bushes, and tried to smoke him 
out, but without success.” 
The structure of the teeth in this animal is very curious, and will repay examination. 
Another species, the HaLiur or Harosa (Phacocherus déliant), belongs to the same 
genus. This animal is sometimes known as the Aithiopian Wild Boar, or the Abyssinian 
Phacocheere. 
AMERICA possesses a representative of the porcine group in the Peccaries, two species 
of which animals inhabit the Brazils. 
The common Prccary, or Tasacu, although it is of no very great dimensions, 
resembling a small pig in size, is yet as terrible an animal as the Wild Boar of India 
or the Phacochceere of Africa. Ever fierce and irritable of temper, the Peccary is as 
formidable an antagonist as can be seen in any land, for it knows no fear, and will 
attack any foe without hesitation. Fear is a feeling of which the Peccary is ignorant, 
probably because its intellect is not of a very high order, and it is unable to com- 
prehend danger. Although the Peccary is a very harmless animal to outward view, 
