SPICYISLANDS. 



The bft author, and perhaps a few others, extend this fpecies 

 to Africa, but the kind they miftake it for is my Cape Ferdhogy 

 N° 77. Linmeus makes it an inhabitant of Borneo, and Gjnelin of 

 'Java, and others * of Celebes and Mindanao, but poffibly they 

 miftake for it the JEthiopian, which is found in the laft t : Pliny 

 had certainly heard of it, for he defcribes fome hogs found in 

 India with f ur horns. " In India Cubitales dentium fiexus 

 " geinini ex rojiro, midejn a fronte feu vituli cornua, exeunt, 

 «« PilusMreoftmilis agrejiibus, ctet£ris nigerr As to the T? Ttr^xv.^o^^^ 

 oi/Eliati, de Nat. Anim. hb. xvii. c. 10, it certainly is the /Ethio- 

 pian. The fpecies appears to me to be limited to this ifland, and 

 perhaps is the moft local of any of the greater quadrupeds. I 

 am decidedly of opinion that it is found wild in Buero only. It 

 may poffibly be domefticated on fome adjacent ifles. As to 

 thofeof A^fK; Guinea, the Papuan illes, and the Moluccas, I can- 

 not find fufficient authority for their exiftence in thofe places : 

 Mr. Forreji never fpeaks of this fmgular animal ; he gives 

 figures of thofe of the Papuan ifles, but not the leaft intimation 

 of their differing from other hogs. They are made in their 

 bodies like our common hog, and have not the elegant deer-like 

 form given it by Nieuhoff. They are fometimes kept tame in the 

 Indian ifles, live in herds, have a very quick fcent, feed on herbs 

 and leaves of trees; never range gardens like other fwine ; their 

 flefli well tailed. When purfued and driven to extremities, 

 rufli into the fea, fwim very well, and even dive, and pafs thus 

 from ifle to ifle ; in the foreft often reft their head, by hooking 



* Purchas, vi 566. + Lib. viii. c. 52. 



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