170 NATURAL HISTORY. 



weapons, and capable of being used with fatal effect. They 

 curve outwards from the lower jaw, and are sometimes eight 

 or ten inches in length. In India, where the Boar attains to 

 a great size, the horses on which the hunters are mounted 

 often refuse to bring their riders within spear stroke of the 

 infuriated animal, who has been known to kill a horse and 

 severely injure the rider with one sweep of its enormous tusks. 



The DOMESTIC HOG scarcely needs any description. It is 

 by no means the unclean and filthy animal that moralists love 

 to represent it. It certainly is fond of wallowing in the mire, as 

 are the elephant, tapirs, &c., but no animal seems to enjoy clean 

 straw more than the Hog. "We shut it up in a dirty narrow 

 crib, give it any kind of refuse to eat, and then abuse it for 

 being a dirty animal and an unclean feeder. While, however, 

 it should be rescued from these unjust imputations, it should 

 bear the weight of an accusation never before made. I have seen 

 pigs suck the cows in a farmyard while they were lying down 

 and chewing the cud, nor did the cows attempt to repel them. 



Babvroussa (native word, Hog-deer'), the Babyroussa. 



The BABYROUSSA inhabits the Molucca Islands, and Java. 

 It is remarkable for possessing four tusks, two of which pro- 

 ceed from the upper jaw, and do not pass out between the lips, 

 but through an aperture in the skin, halfway between the end 

 of the snout and eyes. 



