HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 153 



M. de la Borde defcribes two kinds of this animal,— 

 one fmaller than the other.— He relates, that being one 

 day engaged with fome others in hunting a drove of Pec- 

 caries, they were furrounded by^ them, and obliged to 

 take refuge upon a piece of rock ; and, notwithstanding 

 they kept up a conftant fire among them, the creatures 

 did not retire till a great number of them were flain. 



The BABIROUSSA, 



though claffed by naturalifts with the Hog kind, differs 

 from animals of that fpecies in a variety of particulars: 

 Its legs are longer, and its body more llender ; it is co- 

 vered with fhort hair as foft as wool, and of a dark-grey 

 colour, mixed with red ; its ears are fhort and pointed ; 

 its tail is long, tufted at the end, and twilled. Its moft 

 diftinguifliing charac~teriftic confifts in four large tulks, 

 the two ftouteft of which proceed, like thofe of the Wild 

 Boar, from the under jaw, pointing upwards, and Hand- 

 ing near eight inches out of the fockets ; the two others 

 rife up like horns on the outfide of the upper jaw, juft 



