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which is commonly pendulous. He emits a 

 ftrong odour, which is not difagreeable ; but 

 1 cannot compare it to any other fmell. When 

 I ftroaked him with the hand, this odour ap- 

 proached to that of a new cheeie. He eats all 

 kinds of grains. His food, when on Ihip- 

 board, was maize, and as much frefli herbage 

 as could be procured. But, after he had tailed 

 barley and iiuropean wheat, with which other 

 animals in our menagery are fed, he preferred 

 this kind of food, and roots dug out of the 

 earth. He was fo fond of tye-bread, that he 

 followed any perfon who had a piece of it. 

 When he eats or drinks, he fupports himfelf 

 on the knees of his fore feet; and he often 

 refts in this pofition. His fenfes of hearing 

 and fmelling are very acute ; but his fight is 

 limited by the fmallnefs and fituatidn of his 

 eyes, which prevent his feeing objefts around 

 him, becaufe they are placed higher and nearer 

 each other than in other hogs, and there are 

 two large excrefcences at the fides and below 

 the eyes. He has more fagacity than the 

 common hog. 



' The figure of the head is terrible. The 

 flatnefs and breadth of the nofe, joined to the 

 length of the fnout, the fingular excrefcentes 

 rifing from the fides of the eyes, and the 

 ftrong tufks, give to the animal a monftrous 

 afpect. The length of the body is about four 

 Rhenifli feet. 



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