T A P I I R, 
low, and, like the Hippopotami walks on the bot¬ 
tom as on dry ground. The Indians flioot it with 
poifoned arrows : they cut the fkin into bucklers, 
and eat the flefli, which is faid to be very good i 
is a falacious, flow-footed, and fluggifli animal: 
makes a fort of biffing noife r Gumilla fays, it will 
make a vigorous refiftance if attacked, and fcarce 
fails flaying the dogs which it can lay hold of. 
Dampler and Bancroft give very faulty defcrip- 
tions of this beaft, imagining it to be the fame witji 
the Hippopotame r 
Caby-bara Marcgrave Brajil, 230. Capivard Frogefs <voy. 99. 61 . Thick- 
fifo Brafil, 99. Raii fyn. quad. Sus hydrochaeris. S. plantis tri- nosep, 
126. da&ylis cauda nulla. Lin. JyJi* 
jRiver hog. Wafer in Dampler, 103. 
III. 400. Hydrochserus, Le Cabiai.. Brif 
Cochon d’Eau des Mar chats. III. fon quad. 80. de Bujf on, xii. 384. 
14. tab. x lix. 
us maximus paluftris. Cabiai, Irabubos Gumilla orenoque, III, 
pabionora. Barr ere France JEquin . 238. 
i6o. 
T. with a very large and thick head and nofe % 
fmall rounded ears ; large black eyes ; upper jaw 
longer than the lower; two ftrong and great cut¬ 
ting teeth in each jaw ; eight grinders in each jaw % 
and each of thofe grinders form on their furface 
feemingly three teeth, each flat at their ends *4 legs 
fhort \ toes long, connedted near their bottoms by 
£ fmall web ; their ends guarded by a fmall hoof j 
* M. de Bujf on denies this: his defeription was taken from a 
young fubjedt; but Marcgrave and des Marcbais, who had oppor¬ 
tunities of examining thefe animals in their native country, agre^ 
in this lingular conftruffion of the teeth, 
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