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entertaining manner. On these occasions he would, 
with his tail erect, sometimes pursue the fallow- 
deer and other animals. 
His food was principally grain and roots ; and of 
the former he preferred barley and the European 
wheat. He was so fond of rye-bread, that he 
would run after any person who had a piece of it in 
his hand. In the acts of eating and drinking he al- 
ways supported himself on the knees of his fore 
feet ; and would often rest in this position. His 
eyes were so situated as to prevent his seeing 
around him, being interrupted by the wattles and 
prominences of his face ; but, in, compensation for 
this defect, his senses of smelling and hearing w ere 
wonderfully acute. 
Dr. Sparrman, when he was in Africa, pursued 
several pigs with the old sows, with the intention 
of shooting one of them, but though he failed in 
this object, their chace afforded him singular plea- 
sure. The heads of the females, which had before 
appeared of a tolerable size, seemed, on a sudden, 
to have grown larger and more shapeless than they 
were. This momentary and wonderful change, as- 
tonished him so much the more, as riding hard 
over a countiw full of bushes and pits, he had been 
prevented from giving sufficient attention to the 
manner in which it was brought about. The 
whole of the mystery, however, consisted in this : 
each of the old ones, during its flight, had taken a 
pig in its mouth ; a circumstance that also explain- 
ed to him another subject of his surprize, which 
was, that all the pigs which he had just before 
been chasing along with the old ones, had vanish- 
ed on a sudden. But in this action we And a kind 
of unanimity among these animals, in which they 
resemble the tame species, and which they have in 
a. greater degree than many others. It is likewise 
very astonishing, that the pigs should be carried 
