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briftles difpofed in fafciculi , of about five each; 
longeft between the ears, and on the beginning of 
the back, and but thinly difperled on the reft of the 
back. 
Ears large and {harp pointed, infide lined with 
long whitifti hairs : tail {lender and flat; does not 
reach lower than the thighs, and covered with hairs 
difpofed in fafciculi . 
Body longer, and legs fhorter than in the com¬ 
mon fwine : its whole length 4 feet 9 inches *, height 
before 2—2 ; but in a wild ftate grows to an enor¬ 
mous fize. 
I faw this animal, 1765, at the Prince of Orange's 
menagery near the Hague it was young, and pro¬ 
bably had not its full number of teeth; 1 imagine 
fo, as the head of a boar from Cape Verd , defcribed 
byM de Buff on-, and jaws of another preferved in 
the Afhmolean Mufeum , at Oxford, evidently of the 
fame fpecies with this, had in the upper jaw two cut¬ 
ting teeth ; and in the lower fix ; and in each were 
fix grinders, the fartheft of them very large. 
Thefe animals inhabit the hotteft parts'of Africa , 
from Senegal to Congo , alfo the ifland of Madagafo 
car*. We know little of their nature, but they 
are reprefented as very fierce and fwift; and that 
they will not breed either with the domeftic or Chi - 
nefe fow, for that at the Hague killed one of the 
laft, and treated the other very roughly, which for 
experiment were turned to it **. 
* Ces fangliers, principalement les mafles, ont deux comes a 
coftez de nez qui font comme deux callofite fc, Flacourt bijl. Madag. 
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