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colle6t (which were now not much more than one chap. 

 hundred) he again marched into the forefl after the 

 enemy ; having previoufly taken away the poft from the 

 Jew Savannah, which he placed at the forfaken eftate 

 Oranjebo, in the very upper parts of Rio Comewina, 

 leaving the river Surinam to take care of itfelf. 



On the 19th of this month in the forenoon, a herd of 

 wild fwine, called pm 00s, (more than two hundred in 

 number) having loft their way in the foreft, came to the 

 Hope, galloping over the plantation, w^hen above a fcore 

 of them were killed by the negroes, who knocked them 

 down with their bill-hooks and axes. In Surinam the 

 wild boars are of three fpecies ; which I will embrace 

 this opportunity to defcribe — thefe are the pingos or 

 waree above-mentioned, the cras-pingo, and the Mexican 

 hog, called the peccary. The pingos are about the fize 

 of our Englifli fmall hogs ; they are black, and have 

 coarfe briftles thinly fcattered; they live in herds of 

 fometimes above three hundred, in the thickeft parts of 

 the foreft, and run always in a line, the one clofely fol- 

 lov/ing the other ; when the foremoft or leader is fhot, 

 the line is inftantly broken, and the whole herd is in 

 confufion ; for which reafon the Indians take care (if 

 poffible) to knock their captain on the head before 

 the reft ; after this the others even often ftand ftill, 

 ftupidly looking at one another, and allowing them- 

 felves to be killed one by one, of which I have been a 

 witnefs. They do not attack the human fpecies, nor 



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