BABYROUSSA. 
even diving, they often escape the hunters : for, 
they swim a long time; and, sometimes, to 
great distances, from one island to another. 
*' The Babyroussa is found, not only in the 
Island of Bouro, or Boero, near Amboyna, 
but in several other parts of the south of Asia 
and Africa ; as, in Celebes, Estrila, Senegal, 
and Madagascar: for, it appears that the Wild 
Boars of this last island, mentioned by Fiacourt, 
*^ the Males of which," he remarks, " have 
chiefly two horns on the side of the nose," 
are Babyroussas. We have not been able to 
determine, whether the Females be deprived 
of" these two tusks, which are so remarkable 
in the Male." 
BufFon, who acknorwledges that most of 
the facts which he has related in this history 
of the Babyroussa, are taken from Valentine's 
description of the East-Indies, adds the fol- 
lowing supplementary rem.arks respecting it's 
figure, which we have copied — " We are 
now," says he — in allusion to not before pos- 
sessing_ any more than the head of this animal 
— enabled to give a figure of the Baby- 
roussa, 
