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Zebras 



" The shyest animal in Africa," a writer has described 

 the zebra. Nothing could be more inaccurate. " It is the 

 tamest," Mr. F, G. Jackson (the best-known English 

 judge of the East African fauna) answered me laconically 

 when I told him ot this opinion in the year 1S96. 



As I have constantly to insist, animals only become 

 shy when they are hunted. And where only natives have 



THE WAY IN Willi II I 111 ' ., .i| I III /M;l:\> III.KMiKIi Wllil 



rilKIK SURROUNDINGS IN THE MIMOSA-WOOD WAS VERY RE- 

 MARKABLE 



hunted and the -animals have had no experience of long- 

 range rifles, European hunters have no difficulty in 

 getting easy shots at big game. Afterwards the animals 

 very soon learn to alter their conduct. 



I found zebras to be quite among the most trusting 

 animals of West Africa ; the sight of large crowds of 

 these beautiful beasts on the wide plains may well be 



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