CAPE VP:RDE BOAR- 
certain distance, have a perfedl resemblance ta 
a couple of ears ; being of the same size, as 
well as figure, though not moveable, and lying 
nearly in the same^ plane with the forehead. 
Still lower, between these excrescences and the 
tusks, there is a large wart on each side of the 
head. It is qasy to perceive, that a "configura- 
tion of this kind must give a vevy singular 
aspe6l to the animal. When viewed in front, 
w^e think we see four ears on a head which 
has no resemblance to that of any knov/n ani- 
mal, and inspires terror by the largeness of ii's 
tusks. 
" Pallas, and Vcsmaer, who have given 
good descriptions of this Boar, tell us that, 
when he arrived in Holland, he was very mild 
and tame ; and that, as he had been several 
months on board the vessel, and had been 
taken young, he was become almost domestic : 
but that, when pursued by strangers, he retired 
slowly backward, and presented his front 
with a menacing air ; and even those that were 
daily near him were not without apprehensions 
of danger. One day, he conceived a resentment 
against his keeper; whon:i he wounded so 
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