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then an oxe-hide, all of one colour, ash-coloured gray, most of them 
with a white strake on the face all quite downe, and a starre in the 
fore-head, haire rough, mane little and short.” ( Purchas , vol. ii., 
p. 1544.) 
Edward Lopes, a Portuguese traveller, relates that one 
of the islands at the mouth of the river Zaire, in Congo, 
is called the “ He of horses, because there are bred and 
brought up in it great store of these creatures that the 
Greekes call hippopotami, that is to say, water-horses.” 
This writer is a little in error in his etymology. The 
name is derived from the words hippos, a horse, and 
potamos, a river. 
There is no record of any living specimen of the 
hippopotamus being brought to England till the year 
1850, when the arrival of a young one at the Zoological 
Gardens caused quite a flutter of interest. 
We come now to a more familiar animal. Boar. 
“ The great wild Borg of nature terrible, 
With two strong tushes for his armourie, 
Sometimes assailes the beare most horrible, 
And ’twixt them is a fight both fierce and deadly. 
He hunteth after marjoram and organie, 
Which as a whetstone doth his need supply.” 
(Chestee, Love's Martyr , p. 109.) 
The Boar, once the most abundant of British wild 
animals, had been gradually driven by the cultivation of 
the forest lands into remote regions of England. Accord¬ 
ing to Mr. Harting, the exact date of the extinction of the 
wild boar in England is uncertain. James I. was regaled 
with “ wild boar pie ” on the occasion of a visit he paid 
to Lancashire, 1617, and his Majesty hunted this game 
in Windsor Forest in the same year (Extinct British 
Animals, p. 100). 
Thomas Fuller writes of the oak woods of Hampshire : 
“Hantshire hogs are allowed by all for the best bacon, being our 
English Westphalian, and which well-ordered hath ^deceived the most 
