rioſities, and are ſoon tamed; but their urine is very offenſive.
There were formerly wild goats and hogs in the woods of this country; but they became ſo by being let free on the plantations. There are, however, very few, if any, at preſent, having been moſtly, if not entirely, deſtroyed by the runaway negroes. The wild hogs were very dangerous when attacked, but their fleſh delicious, owing to the vaſt quantity and goodneſs of the wild yams, and other proviſions, on which they lived, and which grow ſpontaneouſly in the woods.
The ſeveral ſpecies of four-footed animals which breed in Dominica are, horſes, horned cattle, ſheep, hogs, goats, rabbits, and Guinea pigs. The poultry are, geeſe, ducks, turkies, dunghill fowls, Guinea fowls, and houſe pigeons.
