THE AFRICAN WILD BOAR. 



Generic Character. 

 Cutting teeth in both jaws, 



Synonims. 



Sits JSthiopicus, Linn. Syjt. app. tome iii. 223. Pallas mifcel. 

 Zool. 10. tab. 11. Spicileg. Zoolog.fafc. ii. l. tab. i. 

 - Engalla, Sorento's Voy. Barbot. 487. 



^Ethiopian Hog, Pennant Syn. No. 55. p. 70- 

 Sanglier du Cap Vert, de Buffon, xiv. 409. xv. 148. 



THIS is one of the animals, which renders the vaft woods and forefts, in 

 the internal parts of Africa, fo dangerous to travellers. Vicious in its 

 difpofltion, and rapid in all its motions, it rufhes upon a man with 

 inconceivable velocity, and throwing him down before he has time to defend 

 himfelf, firft breaks his legs, and then rips up his belly in an inftant. He 

 will likewife attack a man on horfeback, and ferve both horfe and rider in 

 the fame manner. 



The head of the African Wild Boar is remarkably large and broad, in 

 proportion to the lize of its body ; and the ftruclure of it is fo peculiar, that 

 it gives the animal a very lingular appearance. It has two fmall tufks in the 

 lower jaw ; but thofe in the upper are very large, and, in old Boars, bend up 

 towards the forehead, in a femicircular form. Thefe are the dreadful 

 weapons which render this animal fo dangerous. The nofe is broad, deprelTed, 

 and almolt as hard as horn ; beneath each eye is a hollow, formed of loofe 

 Ikin, which is very foft and wrinkled : under thefe, on each tide, is a great 

 lobe, or wattle, placed a] mo ft horizontally ; it is broad, flat, and round at 



