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HOG. 
prey : the Jaguar, or American leopard is its mor¬ 
tal enemy; often the body of that animal is found 
with feveral of tbefe hogs {lain in combat. Dogs 
1 will fcarce attack it: if wounded will turn on the 
hunter. Feeds on fruits and roots, on toads, and 
all manner of ferpents, and holding them with the 
fore-feet' Ikins them with great dexterity." Is reck¬ 
oned very good food ; but all writers agree that the 
dorfal gland muft be cut out as foon as the animal is 
killed, or the 'flefh will become fo infeded as not to 
be eatable. The Indian name of this fpecies is Pa- 
-quiras *, from whence feems to be derived that of 
■Pec ary. 
Aper in India See. Plinii lib. viii. 
'•* 2 - , 
Of Mian an. lib. 
xviii. c. io. 
Baby-rouJTa. Bontius India. 61. 
Gre-zvs Mufeum. 27. Raiifyn. quad. 
6. Klein quad. zq. Seb. Muf. I. 
o. tab. CO. Valentyn Amboin. III. 
268. 
Strapge hog. Purchases Pilgr. II. 
US93. v. 566. Nieuhojj\ <voy. 19$. 
S as dentibus duobus caninis fron- 
ti innatis. S. Babyruila. Linfyfi. 
104. 
Sus caudatus, dentibus caninis 
fuperioribus, ab origine fiirfum 
verfis, arcuatis, cauda floccoia. 
Brijfon quad. yb. 
Le Babiroima. de Bufon'xii. 379. 
tab. xlv 111. Br. muf. AJhm. 
muf. 
57 ' 
Indian. 
H. with four cutting teeth in the upper, fix in the 
lower jaw 5 ten grinders to each jaw; in the lower 
jaw two tufks pointing towards the eyes, and Hand¬ 
ing near eight inches out of their fockets from 
two fockets on the outfide of the upper jaw, two 
other teeth, twelve inches long, bending like horns, 
their ends almolt touching the forehead : ears fmall, 
ered, flxarp pointed : along the back are fome weak 
* Gumilla . 
briftles: 
