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jELJANS’ wart-hog. 
concerning the truth of our interpretation, but do 
really believe that he meant to convey, by his 
few designations, a description of these three 
animals. Considerations such as these, and still 
more the respect due to the wisdom of the 
ancients, have induced us to call our Wart Hog 
by the name of Ailian. 
The external appearance of the Wart Hog is 
as follows : — The whole skin is of an earthy 
colour, scantily covered with bristles. Between 
the ears arises a mane, which extends along the 
neck and the back, and the single hairs of which 
are frequently ten inches long. The bristles of 
this mane, as well as on the rest of the body, are 
of light brown colour, and have not each of them 
their individual root, but three or six bristles 
together form one tuft, and have one common 
root. As the whole body, except on the back, is 
but scantily provided with hair, it presents rather 
a bare appearance. The head along the brow is 
broad, the latter somewhat depressed ; the eyes 
are small, and situated very high up ; from the 
brow downwards to the naked ridge, occurs a 
depression below the eyes, and in the vicinity of 
the cheek, is a wart which, in comparing it with 
another smaller one, alongside the cheek, we call 
the larger wart. These warts are formed out of 
a thickened skinny tissue ; and we find them con- 
siderably smaller than in the species of the Cape. 
