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the natives take care to cut away this part with a knife, 

 to prevent its infedting the flefli,. which it would foon do, 

 making it fo difgufling as not to be eatable. The length 

 of the peccary is about three feet : it has no tail ; fine 

 limbs, fhort tulks, and yellowiih grey briltles, much, 

 refembling thofe of an EngliQi hedge-hog; on the back 

 they are very long, but on the fides and on the belly 

 they are both fhort and very thinly fcattered. This crea-- 

 ture has a light-coloured fpot that comes down from the 

 flioulder on each fide the breafi:, fomething like a horfe- 

 collar. Hogs of this fpecies are more uncommon in the 

 low and marfiiy countries than in the inland parts, where 

 tiiey prefer feeding amongft the mountains and dry 

 favannas. The peccary is eafily tamed, and in that fiiate 

 harmlefs and inofFenfive, but not fo fi:upid as is aflTerted 

 by the Count de BufFon, who fays, they know no perfon^ 

 and have no attachment to thofe that feed them ; for. 

 Major Medlar had one at the Hope that followed him like 

 a dog, and fhewed the greateft delight in being careflTedj 

 by its mafter. I ought alfo to obferve that it is, whea* 

 irritated, very vicious and mifchievous. They go in 

 large herds as the other fpecies, produce many young 

 at a time, and their grunting is extremely loud and dif— 

 agreeable. 



On the morning of the 29th, we again heard the report: 

 of feveral guns toward the river Cottica, where it fince 

 appeared the rebels were a fecond time beaten back from 



