They had no tails--only knobs in their place; and their tapering snouts opened into a pair of long jaws, with white tusks, that could be seen even in the distance.
"_Javalies_!" cried Lucien, who, although he had never seen the animal, knew them from description.

Javalies they were in fact--the wild-hogs of Mexico.
All three had pulled up, as soon as they saw the animals were not wolves.

They did not halt long, for Jeanette was in danger.

She was still kicking and squealing like a cat; while the javalies, although several of them lay stretched behind her heels, were uttering their shrill grunts, and rushing at her shanks whenever these rested for a moment upon the earth.

There were more than a hundred of them around her feet.