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keep off most effectually half a dozen fierce assailants. I have also seen them, when 

 hotly pursued, attack and severely wound their pursuers." 



But of all the hog-tribe one of the most remarkable is the Babirusa, or " pig-deer," 

 as it is called by the Malays, from its long and slender legs and curved tusks, which 



