CA.PE VEP>.DE BOAR. 
Besides, it would appear ths.t he canrivOt pro- 
duce with our Hogs. A Guinea Sow was 
presented to him ; after smelling her for some 
time, he pursued her into a narrow place, 
from which she could not escape, and tore her 
in pieces with his tusks. He afterwards 
abused a Common Sow to such a degree, that 
she was carried ofr, in order to save her from 
destruction. It is wonderful that this animal, 
which seems not to be rare in it's native coun- 
try, has not been mentioned by any traveller ; 
or, at least, in terms so vague, that no idea can 
be formed of it. Flacourt tells us that, iu 
Madagascar, there are V/ild Boars which have 
two horns on the side of the nose, resem.bling 
two callosities ; and that these animals are 
nearlv as dangerous as the Wild Boars of 
France. M. De Buffon imagines, that this 
passage relates to the Babiroussa, though ex- 
tremely ill described ; but what Flacourt adds, 
that these animals are dangerous, seems to cor- 
respond better with our African Boars. M. 
Adanson, when speaking of a Wild Boar 
which he saw in Africa, expresses himself in 
these terms — ^" I saw," says he, one of those 
enormous Wild Boars peculiar to Africa ; and 
which, 
