KATUR A LIST'S CABINET. 



A singular anecdote. 



tween her legs, as the usual manner is, and tak- 

 mg the snout in her left hand, with a long knife 

 stuck the pig, and cut the small end of the heart 

 almost in two, Jetting it bleed as long as any 

 blood came forth; then throwing it into a kettlt 

 of boiling water, the pig swam twiee round about 

 the kettle; when, taking it out to the dresser, 

 she rubbed it with powdered rosin, and, stripped 

 off the hair, and as she was cutting off the hinder 

 petty-toe, the pig lifted up his head with open 

 mouth as if it would have bitten: the belly \va 

 then cut up, the entrails drawn out, and the 

 heart laid upon the board, which, notwithitand- 

 ing the wound it received, had motion in it- above 

 four hour* after. There were several of the fa- 

 mily by, with myself, and we could not otherwise 

 conclude but that the pig was bewitched.'* 



The female goes four months with young, an<l 

 has numerous litters, sometimes twenty at a time* 

 These animals live to a considerable age, even. 

 to twenty-five or thirty years. The flesh, though 

 very nutritious, from not being so digestible as 

 some other kinds of animal food, is supposed to 

 be unwholesome to persons who lead sedentary 

 lives* 



In the island of Sumatra there is a variety of 

 this animal that frequents the impenetrable bushes 

 and marshes of the sea-coast. They live on crab* 

 and roots; associate in herds, are of a grey co- 

 lour, and smaller than the' English swine. At 

 certain periods of the year, they *wim in terg 



