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much display of the white, when in action ; the head 

 short, thickly furnished with hair, inclining to curl ; 

 a very muscular neck ; a high shoulder ; the back 

 very nearly straight ; the loins broad ; the bristles 

 thick on the neck and shoulder; the tail rather 

 short, and near the tip covered with lateral bristles, 

 resembling the wings of an arrow.' * 



' ' Our breed of Hogs was derived from the Canary 

 Isles — a genuine African variety. We were stocked 

 from the ships of the Spanish discoverers. The 

 species has the prick-ears of the Indian, but not what 

 may at all be spoken of as a short head, — the head 

 being elongated, and the extremities having a corre- 

 spondent peculiarity, — a proportional extension of 

 leg and limb. Mr, Johnston, of Portland, tells me 

 that all our hogs are prick-eared ; and he has seen 

 many with the feathered tail. They are generally 

 black ; but red swine, that is, foxy-coloured, have 

 been caught in our forests. A lop-eared hog is very 

 rarely seen, even in our streets. 



" BufFon's description of tracking the wild hogs in 

 the West Indian forest, and the caution against over- 

 fast pursuit, is represented to me as exceedingly cor- 

 rect. Their turning about, however, to face the dogs, 

 is not so striking a fact with us, as their directly run- 

 ning for large trees with deep salient roots, into 

 which they thrust themselves backward, and stand 

 steadfastly the assault made upon them. Many a 

 time when the novitiate huntsman has supposed that 

 in starting a hog in the open grounds, he would 

 make a long run of it, he has found his pursuit ter- 

 minated by his game ensconcing himself within the 



* Col. Williamson's Oriental Field Sports. 



