140 II. ANIMALS.— Mammalia. 



Hog, Sus scrofa. Flesh, pork, caro suilla, extremely nutritive 

 and easily digested ; of the adult animal, bacoii hog^ salted in brine 

 or with dry salt, and then either kept moist, pickled pork, or merely 

 dried, ivhite bacon, or dried and smoked, hacoiiy that of the hind 

 legs, ham, equally nutritive, but less easily digested ; skin, rind, 

 eaten with the flesh if not smoked, also tanned for saddle seats ; 

 bladders prepared as ox bladders : the abdominal fat, j^ig^s flare, 

 adepfi suillns, adeps P. L. is used, as also the blood for food, and 

 it yields a bezoar. 



Sea horse, Bottle-nose seal. Sea lion, Phoca leonina. Flesh, 

 beef^ nutritive; yields blubber, and about two hhds. of blood. 



Ursine seal, Sea bear, Phoca nrsina. Flesh of the young 

 animal has the taste of lamb and sucking pig ; that of the adult 

 is coarse, black, and unpalatable : fat about four inches thick, 

 unpalatable. 



Leonine seal, ^Sea lion, Phoca jubata. Flesh of the young 

 nutritive ; skin used as leather, yields fat. 



Seal, Sea calf. Sea dog, Phoca vitulina. Flesh delicate, hide 

 and fur used ; yield oil. 



Arctic WALRUS, Morse, Seacoto, Trichecusrosmarus. Blubber 

 four inches thick, white, firm ; teeth a foot long, weigh 41b. to 

 lOlb., not equally sound throughout, some parts superior to ivory, 

 others inferior ; skin forms excellent leather. 



Indian walrus. Sea cow, Dngong, Trichecus dugong. Teetli, 

 Lapis manati, very white, used as ivory. 



Whale-tailed manati, Manatus boreulis. Flesh of the 

 young animal like veal, of the adult like coarse beef, and requires 

 long boiling ; blubber has the taste of oil of almonds, grows yellow 

 in the sun, substituted for butter, keeps sweet all the summer ; 

 skin used for shoes, and covering boats. 



River horse. Hippopotamus amphibijis. Subcutaneous fat, 

 weighs from 10001b. to ^OOOlb., particularly delicious ; tongues 

 preserved by drying, delicious ; teeth, jnorse teeth, harder and 

 whiter than ivory, not so apt to turn yellow, used to make artificial 

 teeth. 



Black whale, Greenland ichale, Balcena mysticcBtus. Teeth, 

 whalebone, luhale flns, lamince balcenarum, elastic, used for flexible 

 probes : yields subcutaneous fat, blubber. — Iceland ichale, B. nord- 

 caper ; — Fin-fish, Balcenoptera gibbar ; — Sea sword, Delphinus gla- 

 diator ; — Poiyoise, D. phoccena. Yield subcutaneous fat, bhdjber. 



Great spermaceti whale, Physeter macrocephalus ; — Blunts 

 headed cacholot, P. trumpo ; — Small-eyed cacholot, P. microps. 

 Yield subcutaneous fat, blubber, and head matter, from whence 

 spermaceti is extracted. 



