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concerning the truth of our interpretation, but do 

 really believe that he meant to convey, by his 

 few designations, a description of these three 

 animals. Considerations such as these, and still 

 more the respect due to the wisdom of the 

 ancients, have induced us to call our Wart Hog 

 by the name of JElian. 



The external appearance of the Wart Hog is 

 as follows : The whole skin is of an earthy 

 colour, scantily covered with bristles. Between 

 the ears arises a mane, which extends along the 

 neck and the back, and the single hairs of which 

 are frequently ten inches long. The bristles of 

 this mane, as well as on the rest of the body, are 

 of light brown colour, and have not each of them 

 their individual root, but three or six bristles 

 together form one tuft, and have one common 

 root. As the whole body, except on the back, is 

 but scantily provided with hair, it presents rather 

 a bare appearance. The head along the brow is 

 broad, the latter somewhat depressed ; the eyes 

 are small, and situated very high up ; from the 

 brow downwards to the naked ridge, occurs a 

 depression below the eyes, and in the vicinity of 

 the cheek, is a wart which, in comparing it with 

 another smaller one, alongside the cheek, we call 

 the larger wart. These warts are formed out of 

 a thickened skinny tissue ; and we find them con- 

 siderably smaller than in the species of the Cape. 



