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susceptibility. Pallas's words in his ' Zoographia,' i. p. 269, as to 

 the wild boar of the Palaearctic region, called by him, not incon- 

 veniently, Sus europaeus, in contradistinction to the China or Siam 

 pig, called by him Sus indicus^ says plainly and emphatically ' por- 

 celli cicurari assuescunt facile et cum domesticis generant.' Radde's 

 utterances (' Reisen im Siiden von Ost-Sibirien,' Bd. i. p. 0,7^6) are 

 even more to the point, as they affirm the like of wild swine of 

 greater age. They run thus : — 



*So muss ich gestehen dass sie sehr friedlicher Natur sind, und es mir mehrmals 

 passirte mittelalte Wildeschweine sich mir bis auf vier Faden Weite naben zu 

 sehen.' 



The Asiatic pigs, secondly, of the group represented by Sus cris- 

 tatus, though not, within my knowledge, those known as Sus verru- 

 cosus, nor those known as Sus barhatus, have very similar and very 

 numerous testimonies borne to their educability and capacity for 

 attachment to man. Fitzinger, indeed, says of the domesticated 

 Chinese pig, his ' Sus leucomystax si7iensis^ that it resembles the 

 domesticated European pig generally in its habits and character, 

 but that it shows much more attachment than the European farm- 

 pig to the persons who take care of it, and will even follow them 

 about, although it is otherwise troublesome and obstinate. (^ Sit- 

 zungsberichte d. Akad. Wiss. Wien,' 1858, Bd. xxx. p. 235-) In 

 Formosa, when the Dutch first became acquainted with it, in the 

 beginning of the seventeenth century, every native woman, we are 

 informed, on the authority of Ogilby(' Atlas Chinensis,' ii. p. 8,a^. by 

 Swinhoe, 'Proc. Zool.' 1870, p. 643), had 'a great pig running after 

 her, as we use to have a dog.' A closer intimacy than this has been 

 observed to exist between Homo sapiefLS asiaticus, Linn., and Sus 

 sinensis, Linn., by Professor Huxley [cit. Galton, 'Trans. Ethnol. 

 Soc' vol. iii. 1865, p. 127), who has seen sucking-pigs nursed at 

 the breasts of women, apparently as pets, in islands of the New- 

 Guinea group. As regards the wild races. Sir Walter Elliot tells 

 me, in a letter of date May 15, 1876 : — 



' I have seen the young of Sus cristatus, which had been captured by some of the 

 Indian nomad communities, and reared by them, running about among the domestic 

 stock ; so that it would be hard to say where the line should be drawn ^.' 



^ It would appear that this difficulty has been felt by others to be a very real one. 

 Colonel Walter Campbell tells us, at p. 325 of his 'Indian Journal,' 1864, that he 

 fears ' the young gentlemen of the present day have taken to spearing village pigs 

 instead of wild boars,' and that he has ' seen the thing done before now.' 



