THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
(Hylochosrus meinertzhageni) was obtained by Captain R. Meinertzhagen on 
the slopes of Mount Kenia; but it has now been ascertained that these 
animals exist in all the forest regions of the high plateaux of East Africa, 
whilst nearly -allied species inhabit the Ituri forest and certain parts of 
the Cameroons. The forest hog is the largest of all African wild swine, 
and is quite as hideous in appearance as the wart hog, having immense 
warty excrescences below the eyes, and a very broad snout. It is covered 
all over with a thick growth of black hair, and carries tusks in the upper 
jaw which, though thick and heavy, are not nearly so long as in the wart 
hog. Living in thick forest, and being nocturnal in its habits, like the 
common African bush pig, the great forest hog is not an easy animal to 
become acquainted with, though it is said by the natives to be quite 
plentiful in the districts it frequents. According to native report, it is a far 
more savage animal than either the bush pig or the wart hog, as when 
disturbed it is said sometimes to take the offensive without further 
provocation. Personally, however, I am inclined to take such stories with 
the proverbial grain of salt. 
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