HOG. 
briftles: on the reft of the body only a fort of" wool* 
fuch as is on lambs : the tail long, ends in a tuft, 
and is often twilled : the body plump and fquare % 
not of the elegant form that Bontius and Nieuhoff 
give it; as appears by an original drawing Mr. 
Loten favored me with. 
Inhabits Buero , a fmall ifle near Amboina : it is 
alfo found in Celebes , but neither on the continent 
of Afia , or Africa % what M. de Buffon takes for it, 
is the ^ Ethiopian boar. Is fometimes kept tame in 
the Indian illes : live in herds: have a very quick 
fcent: live on herbs and leaves of trees; never ra¬ 
vage gardens like other fwine: their flefliwell-tafted: 
when purfued and driven to extremities, rulh into 
the fea, fwim very well, and even dive, and pafs 
thus from ifle to ifle: in the forefts often reft their 
head, by hooking their upper tulks on fome bough *• 
The tulks, from their form, ufelefs in fight. 
* The natural hiftory of this animal is taken from Valentin's hiJK 
of the Eaft Indies , from si tranflatiori Mr, Loten was fo obliging to 
communicate to me. 
