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boar, in order to pillage the more succulent pro- 

 ductions of human industry, but lives remote from 

 mankind, content with coarser fare and security. 

 It has been said that it was only to be found in 

 the island of Borneo ; but this is a mistake, as it 

 is well known in many other parts both of Asia 

 and Africa, as at the Celebes, Estrila, Senegal, 

 and Madagascar.* 



Such are the animals of the hog kind, which 

 are not distinctly known ; and even all these, as 

 we see, have been but imperfectly examined or 

 described. There are some others of which we 

 have still more imperfect notices ; such as the 

 Waree, a hog of the Isthmus of Darien, describ- 

 ed by Wafer, with large tusks, small ears, and 

 bristles like a coarse fur over all the body. This, 

 however, may be the European hog, which has 

 run wild in that part of the new world, as no other 

 traveller has taken notice of the same. The Ca- 

 nary boar seems different from other animals of 

 this kind by the largeness of its tusks, and, as is 

 judged from the skeleton, by the aperture of its 

 nostrils, and the number of its grinders. I cannot 

 conclude this account of those animals that are 

 thus furnished with enormous tusks, without ob- 

 serving, that there is a strong consent between 

 these and the parts of generation. When cas- 

 trated, it is well known that the tusks grow much 

 smaller, and are scarcely seen to appear without 

 the lips ; but what is still more remarkable is, 

 that in a boar, if the tusks by any accident or de- 



* Anderson's Natural History of Greenland. 

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