CAPEVERD BOAR. 253 



' paclous animals, prevent the multiplication of 

 * the hogs, by devourinir great numbers of 

 ' them *.' He adds no delcription ; and, there- 

 fore, no conclufion can be drawn. Befules, he 

 ranks among the number of Cape hogs the large 

 ant-eater, which is an American animal, and has 

 no refemblance to the hog. What credit is due 

 to an author fo ill informed ? 



The body of our African boar refembles that 

 of the European kind ; But it differs widely in 

 the form of the head, which is of an cnormoas 

 fize. The moft conlpicuous objeds are the large 

 tuiks which fpring from each fide of the upper 

 jaw, and are direded almoft perpendicularly up- 

 ward. They are near feven inches long, and 

 terminate in a blunt point. Two fmnilar tuflcs, 

 but fmaller and thinner, rife from the under jaw, 

 and apply themfelves exadly to the external fide 

 pf the fuperior tufks when the mouth is fhut. 

 Thefe are powerful arms, which he may ufe to 

 advantage in his native country, where he muft 

 be often expofed to the attacks of carnivorous 

 animals. 



His head, which is large and flat before, ter- 

 minates in an ample fnout, nearly equal in dia- 

 meter to the breadth of the head, and of a hard- 

 nefs which approaches to that of horn. He ufes 

 it, like our hogs, in dic!;ging the earth. His eyes 

 are fmall, and fituated fo far forward in the head, 

 that he can only fee flraight before him. They 



are 



* Defcript. du Cap de Bonne-efperaoce, torn. 3. p. 43. 



