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400 lb. His tusUs, however, ran round the outer curve to as 

 much as 13 in. The Indian boar weighs something over 

 300 lb. but his tusks reach to nearly 14i in. Mr. Percival 

 says that there are stories amongst the Chinese country 

 people of bigger boars than even his. "They are black and 

 white in colour, are said to have teeth like saws, and to weigh 

 from eight to nine hundred pounds each." They are reported 

 to be very savage, doing great devastation in the rice fields, 

 ^nd sometimes eating children. This he took cum grano salis. 



