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* In 1510 a Portuguese ship sailing from Brazil to Portugal stopped in Barbados for drinking water.  The captain on docking put ashore a number of pigs that other travellers that became ship wrecked could hunt for food.  The feral (wild) pigs multiplied significantly so that when settlers came to the island in 1627 they were able to hunt them for food.  Swan’s map published in Richard Ligon’s History of Barbados (1656) shows an illustration of a man hunting wild pigs in Barbados.
* Pigs occupy the first stone building in Barbados after settlement in 1627.  When the settlers brought pigs with them and they soon realised that the pigs were eating the wooden structures that were originally built for them.