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twice drove the game close to where I was lying, but on both oc- 
casions I was sound asleep, being overcome with fatigue, and I 
got up and returned home. As I was returning I fell in with an old 
sow and five pigs: I let fly at her, as she with her whole family 
were coming up to take a look at me. This, as I did not hit any of 
them, did not at all disturb her or her brood, who, by their size, 
might be about nine months old; she, with four of the young ones, 
only turned, on one side, and walked slowly amongst the long 
grass. As I came nearer, the fifth, a young boar, came snorting 
up, with his tail erect, to within pistol shot; I presented the gun 
to him, but he seemed to care very little for me, and I did not 
like to kill him. After both had satisfied ourselves with looking 
at one another, he, seeing the whole of his relations in safety, 
turned round with a grunt, and strutted after them, with as little 
fear in his gesture as if he had been lord of the soil. The wild hogs 
of Africa, both in Borgo, Houssa, and Bornou, are the same in ap- 
pearance, having a head much larger in proportion to their bodies 
than the domestic hog of Europe. In Yourriba and Nyffe the 
snout is very broad and round, with two large tusks on each 
side, one in each jaw, both upper and lower turning up, the lower 
fitting also the upper and outside ; the back of the neck covered 
with a mane of upright bristles of a snuff-brown colour, no other 
hair appearing on any other part, except at the tip of the tail : they 
are universally of the same colour, a dark mouse or lead colour : 
the height of a full grown boar is about three and a half or four 
feet, and from the tip of the snout to the root of the tail about five 
feet. They have also two warts on each side of the head, on 
a line with the nose, the largest below the ear, two inches and 
a half, the other about an inch lower down, upon the end of the 
upper tusk, which look like two horns. 
Tuesday, 13th. — I did not go out until nearly mid-day, and then 
went to the south of the town, amongst the hills and woods, but 
