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much display of the white, when in action ; the head 
short, thickly furnished with hair, inclining to curl ; 
a very muscular neck ; a high shoulder ; the back 
very nearly straight ; the loins broad ; the bristles 
thick on the neck and shoulder ; the tail rather 
short, and near the tip covered with lateral bristles, 
resembling the wings of an arrow.’ * 
“ Our breed of Hogs was derived from the Canary 
Isles — a genuine African variety. We were stocked 
from the ships of the Spanish discoverers. The 
species has the prick-ears of the Indian, but not what 
may at all be spoken of as a short head, — the head 
being elongated, and the extremities having a corre- 
spondent peculiarity, — a proportional extension of 
leg and limb. Mr. Johnston, of Portland, tells me 
that all our hogs are prick-eared ; and he has seen 
many with the feathered tail. They are generally 
black ; but red swine, that is, foxy-coloured, have 
been caught in our forests. A lop-eared hog is very 
rarely seen, even in our streets. 
“ Buffon’s description of tracking the wild hogs in 
the West Indian forest, and the caution against over- 
fast pursuit, is represented to me as exceedingly cor- 
rect. Their turning about, however, to face the dogs, 
is not so striking a fact with us, as their directly run- 
ning for large trees with deep salient roots, into 
which they thrust themselves backward, and stand 
steadfastly the assault made upon them. Many a 
time when the novitiate huntsman has supposed that 
in starting a hog in the open grounds, he would 
make a long run of it, he has found his pursuit ter- 
minated by his game ensconcing himself within the 
* Col. Williamson’s Oriental Field Sports. 
