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Strasbourg artist would have bestowed on it, 

 no doubt it would have rivalled a Westpha- 

 lian tete de sanglier. 



These are the only two species of the pig 

 kind that came under my notice, but a 

 respectable cross-bred Indian told me that, 

 several years before, a large herd of about 

 sixty pigs came down into an immense sa- 

 vannah, about forty miles more to the north, 

 and that he and a few Indians followed them 

 on horseback with spears, lassos, bows and 

 arrows, and one musket, and that they suc- 

 ceeded in killing every one : they were a dif- 

 ferent breed from the above, but not nearly 

 so savage as the javalino, and perhaps were 

 a previously domesticated breed escaped into 

 the woods, as in some of the South Sea 

 Islands. 



Before leaving the subject of the wild boar 

 and his habits, an anecdote, told me by an 

 old ally and friend, the " Tigrero r> or panther- 

 hunter, may be acceptable, as shewing the 

 courage and savageness of the brute far bet- 

 ter than anything I have met with myself. 



We were hunting together on foot, when, 

 arriving at an open spot in the forest about 

 forty yards across, with a single tree in the 

 centre, he stopped me and told me he had a 



