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carried off, in order to fave her from deftruc- 

 tion. 



It is wonderful that this animal, which, as I 

 formerly remarked, feems not to be rare in its 

 native country, has not been mentioned by any 

 traveller, or at leaft in terms fo vague, that no 

 idea can be formed of it. Flacourt * tells us, 

 that in Madagafcar there are wild boars which 

 have two horns on the fide of the nofe, refem- 

 bling two caliofities ; and that thefe animals are 

 nearly as dangerous as the wild boars of France. 

 M. de Buffon imagines, that this paffage relates 

 to the babiroulTa, and perhaps he may be right : 

 But it may, with equal probability, relate to our 

 boar. Thefe horns, which refembled two calio- 

 fities, may have been the tulks of this boar, as 

 well as thofe of the babiroulla, though extremely 

 ill defcribed ; and what Flacourt adds, that thefe 

 animals are dangerous, feems to correlpond bet- 

 ter with our African boar. M. Adamfon t> 

 when fpeaking of a wild boar he faw in Africa, 

 cxprefles himfelf in thefe terms : ' I faw,' fays 

 he, ' one of thofe enormous wild boars peculiar 



* to Africa, and which, I believe, have never been 



* mentioned by any Naturalift. It was black, . 



* like the European wild boar, burvaftly larger 



* in fize. It had four large tulks, the two fu- 



* perior of which bended in a femicircular form 



* toward the front, and had the appearance of 



' horns,' 



• Hi ft. de la grand ifle Madagafcar, p. ij*. 

 •f Hift. Nat. du Senegal, p. 76. 





