144 THE ETHIOPIAN, OR 



* may have an opportunity of examining it. 



* We tried to make the one in our poITeffion 



* copulate with a ibw ; but, as foon as fhe was 



* prefented to him, he darted upon her with 



* fury, and tore her to pieces.' 



We have copied the engraving tranfmitted to 

 us by M. Allamand. M. Pallas, and M. Vof- 

 maer haveufcd the fame figure, and each of them 

 have given a defcription of this animal. M. 

 Allamand, in his letter to M. Daubenton, dated 

 at Leyden,0£loher 31. 1766, remarks, that the 

 head is the moft lingular part of this boar, 

 which chiefly differs from that of our hogs by 

 two uncommon appendixes, in the form of ears, 

 at the lide of each eye. 



We Ihall here remark, that the difdain and 

 ■ cruelty, mentioned by M, Allamand, of this 

 wild boar to the fovv when in feafon, feems to 

 prove it to be a different fpecies from our hogs. 

 Afarther proof arifes from the difference in the 

 form of the head, both external and internal. 

 However, as it approaches the hog much near- 

 er than any other animal, and as it is found not 

 only in the neighbourhood of Cape Verd, but 

 not very diftant from the Cape of Good Hope, 

 we fhall call it the African boar, and give the ; 

 hi.ftory and defcription qf it from the writings of i 

 tahas and Volmaer. 



Vofinaer calls it'the nvilJ Afrlcaii boar, or the 

 boar tvltb a large Jhont, and diitinguiflies it, 

 >^'ith propriety, from the Guiney hog with long 



pointed 



