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or briftles, thickly fet on every part of 

 the body. Their flefh is lefs oily and 

 more delicate than European pork, and 

 is much efteemed by the White Inha- 

 bitants in thefe colonies. 



A fpecies of the Hippopotamus, or 

 Water Horfe, limilar to thofe found on 

 the coaft of Africa, near the Cape of 

 Good Hope, I am informed have been 

 taken in the river Eff'equebo, but of a 

 much fmaller fize. They are an am- 

 phibious animal, delighting in frelh 

 water rivers, and feeding on the grafs 

 growing on their banks. Thefe ani- 

 mals, in colour and fhape, refemble the 

 Rhinoceros, but their legs are fhorter, 

 and of equal fize from top to bottom. 

 The head refe.mbles that of a Horfe, 

 with a large mouth and noftrils, but 

 fmall eyes and ears, and his tail is fhort 

 and blunt, and thinly covered with fhort 



hair. 



