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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 
immense forests, who has no other resource except the 
chase. An enormous gridiron is immediately constructed 
with sticks fixed in the earth, and three feet in height, 
over which a quantity of small branches are placed in 
a transverse direction. On these the Peccaries are 
deposited after being cut in pieces, and are cooked by 
a slow fire, which is kept up during the whole night. 
From the enthusiasm with which our author speaks of 
his desert feasts, and the regret which he expresses 
that he is no longer a sharer in them, we may readily 
imagine that, under the circumstances in which he par- 
took of them, they must have been an exquisite treat. 
It does not, however, follow as a necessary consequence 
that in other places and at other times he might have 
been so well disposed to relish these delicacies of the 
forest. 
Of this species the Society has but a single specimen, 
which in its habits and behaviour is perfectly similar 
to the Collared Peccaries inhabiting the neighbouring 
sty. It has been generally said that the secretion from 
its dorsal gland is inodorous ; but M. Sonnini makes 
no distinction in this respect between the two ; and the 
individual now before us, if not quite so offensive as 
the others, is nevertheless sufficiently so to render its 
proximity not very desirable. 
