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lap of killing a fcore or two before they 

 efcape. The Indians aire very fond of 

 the fle£h ; but the peculiarity of the 

 glandulous body oil its back is difguflful 

 to the Whites, who feldom eat the flefh 

 of the Pecary. The precaution which 

 Wafer * fays the Indians of Darien take 

 to feparate this glandular body, foon af* 

 ter the animal is killed, is likewife ob^ 

 ferved by the Indians of Guiana. 



The Warree Hog has likewife been 

 mentioned by Wafer, but by no other 

 Writer of Natural Hiftory. They are 

 here more numerous even than the Pe-» 

 cary, being much larger \ but, like 

 them, running in large droves. In fize 

 and fhape they nearly referable the Eu- 

 ropean Hogs, except that their ears are 

 fmaller, and they have larger tulks, 

 and are covered with long coarfe hair, 



* Vide V oyage to the Ifthmus of America, 



or 



