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make any refiftance at ally like the European wild-hoar,,
when, wounded^ as has beerr by fome authors errone*
oufly aflerted.. As for their attacking dogs, I can fey.
nothing about it, never having bad any with me when
I met them.—The maz-pingm, are large, armed' with
ftrong tulks, and: their briftlqs fiib. c©%rfer than th e
former; ..This large^ fpec^s indeed; ase'fS^ggydangerous,,
as well from their firengfch as their ferocity attacking,
any thing that obftnii&swhen
wounded» They move in the lame man n er and?
in as large herds? as the former? hut inhabbehieRy the
more inland parts of the, country- Jloth, thefe fpeeieS».
when they hear the fmaUeft npifc. in Riefayeft that indicates
danger, flop Ihort in their con^fe, form: in a. clofe
body, and gnalh their teethe • preparing, themfelv.es for
defence againft the enemy I am of ©pinion.that, thefe
are not natural to Quiana, but originaliy from: Africa and
Europe*. Their ftefh is eaten with aridity, by the. natives,
and even efteemed by the white inhabitants, bnt is in my
©pinion dry, hard, and unfavounyw—That fpecieswhieh
is called the peccary or Mexicau-hog^ -is alone fnppofed
to be indigenous toOniana,, and wiU; 3®o,t intermix! with
either the wild or doroeftit? hogs*. I This animal is particularly
remarkable by having an- orifice on: the' back,
which is vulgarly miftaken fo r. its navel,, and which, being
about one inch deep,, contains a ftinking fedb liquor,
which fbme compare tothe fmell of muik, but which is
fo very diiagreeahle, that the inftant the animal is killed,
the