^52 THE ETHIOPIAN, OR 



Hope, in the year 1765, to the menagery of 

 the Prince of Orange, which has hitherto been 

 unknown to the Naturahfts. BeliJe the many 

 fingularities which make the European hog a 

 detached fpecies, this animal exhibits frelh ano- 

 mahes, which diftinguifh him from all the other 

 varieties of the fame genus ; for the figure of 

 his head is not only different, but he has no cut- 

 ting teeth, from which moit of our Nomencla- 

 tors have drawn their diftindive charafters, 

 though the number of the teeth is by no means 

 uniform, even in our domeftic hogs. 



To M. Tulbagh, Govemour of the Cape of 

 Good Hope, who mifTes no opportunity of tranf- 

 mitting to Europe the curious produdions of 

 that country, we are indebted for this wild boar. 

 In his letter, he remarks, that this animal was 

 taken about two hundred leagues from the Cape, 

 and that it was the firft which had ever been 

 feen there alive. The laft year, however, he fent 

 another, which is ftill living ; and, in 1767, he 

 tranfmitted a fkin, of which we have only been 

 able to preferve the head. Thefe circumftances 

 feem to indicate, that this animal is not rare in 

 its native country. I know not whether Kolbe 

 means to fpeak of theic boars in the following 

 pafTIige. ' In the country occupied by the Dutch, 

 ' we rarely meet with %vild hogs : As there are 



* few woods, which are their common retreats, 



* they have no motive to frequent thefe territo- 



* ries. Belides, the lions, tigers, and other ra- 



' pacious 



