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pointed ears, from the American pecari, and 

 from the Indian babiroufla. 



' M. de BufFon,' he remarks, ' fpeaking of a 



* pare of the jaws, the tail and feet of a fingular 



* wild boar of Cape Verd, preferved in the royal 



* cabinet, fays, that is has cutting teeth: But no 



* fuch teeth appear in our fubjed.' 



Hence M. Vofmaer infinuates, that it is not 

 the fame animal. We have feen, however, thac 

 M. Allamand and I agree, that this Cape de Verd 

 boari of which I have had an opportunity of ex- 

 amining a part of the head only, is found, not- 

 withftanding, to be the fame large fnouied hog 

 which iM. Voimaer faid was unknown to all llie 

 naturalifts. 



M. Tulbagh, Governour of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, who tranfmitted this wild boar to Europe^ 

 writes, that it was taken between Caffraria and 

 the country of the great Namaquas, about two 

 hundred leagues from the Cape, and that is was 

 the only one of the fpccies which had been feeil 

 there alive. M. Voimaer likewife received the 

 fkin of an animal of the fame fpecies, which ap- 

 peared to differ, in fome particulars, from the 

 live animal, 



Thisaniinal was kept in a cage; * and, as I was 

 ' informed,' M. Vofmaer remarksj ' that he was 

 ' not mifchievous, 1 opened the door of his cage. 

 ' He came out, without (howing any marks of 



* rage. He gaily fiifked about in quell of food, 



* and greedily devoured whatever was given him. 



Q 3 ' Having; 



