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demoralised, its wildness and troublesoineness having 

 become so intensified in the course of a few centuries. 



As Edward Hahn remarks in his work Douicstic 

 Auijua/s. half-savage horses were sometimes much 

 prized, until quite lately, because of their extraordinary 

 powers of endurance, but feared on account of their ill- 

 temper and awkwardness. On the high steppes of Asia 

 especially, the old wild horses which are captured 

 prove quite unmanageable in the hands of highly 

 skilled riders. 



Of recent years numerous attempts have been made 

 to tame zebras and to render them serviceable to man, 

 and the opinion has been widely promulgated that 

 the zebra is destined in a very short time to be a 

 beast of burden and a draft horse tor East Africa. 

 These statements meet with the more credence in that 

 it is well known that ordinary horses cannot stand the 

 unhealthy climate of East Africa, and it they do manage 

 to exist tor a time are not capable of any real work. 

 South Somaliland constitutes the boundary line ot the 

 usefulness of horses and camels. Were it otherwise, the 

 moimted Galla tribes would unquestionably have dispersed 

 themselves southwards over the fana River in the East 

 Atrican plains. 



Only in the highly improbable event of an absolute 

 preventive being discovered against the tsetse fiy — - 

 perhaps also against malaria and other illnesses — -will 

 the employment of horses become possible in those 

 lands. 



Hitherto, while zebras, like all other sagacious animals, 



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