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animal ln our poffeffion ; but I and my people 
were actuated by very different motives. 
Gluttony prefented it to their eyes as a de- 
licious morfel, on which they were about to 
feed ; whilft curiofity exhibited it to my mind 
as an interefting objed of natural hiftory, 
which I did not know but from books and 
engravings. 
The legs of this animal being vei*y fhort in 
proportion to its bulk, favoured us fo much, 
that we were able to roll it to land, as we 
would have rolled a German bully. The ani- 
mal was alfo round; and I could not be fatif- 
fied with admiring and examining this enor- 
mous mafs, which was a female, with the ml- 
nuteft attention. Pit's ball had ftruck exaCtly 
above the left eye, and was found lodged in 
its jaw ; but I much doubted whether that had 
occafioned its death. Mine, on the contrary, 
entering precifely near the omoplate, had bro- 
ken one of its ribs, and paffed through its 
hmgs from one fide to another. 
From the muzzle to the root of the tail, It 
was ten feet feven inches in length, and eight 
feet eleven inches in circumference. Its tufks, 
which were crooked, w^ere only five inches in 
Jength, and an inch in diameter in the thickeft 
part. 
