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foals are born in September. They are very easily caught when young, 

 and soon become quite tame. If one gallops in between a very young 

 foal and its mother, the former will sometimes follow one's horse right 

 back to camp. These zebras run with considerable speed and endurance, 

 but are not so fast as the large antelopes living in the same country 

 with them, and I have often galloped right through a herd of them. 

 This species is fond of feeding in company with other animals, such 



Fig. 20. — The Kilimanjaro (?) Bonte-Quagga, one of the fully striped races, photographed 

 by the Duchess of Bedford from a living specimen at Woburn. 



as buffaloes, blue wildbeests, elands, gemsbucks, and roan and tsessebe 

 antelopes. They are not naturally very wary, and in parts of the 

 country where they have not been much disturbed, and are therefore 

 unsuspicious of danger, they are very inquisitive. When hunting to 

 the north of the Pungwi river in 1S92, in a part of the country where 

 I suppose the Burchell's zebras had never seen a man with any clothes 

 on, these animals often came to within 100 yards to have a good look 

 at me ; and on one occasion a large herd approached within 50 yards, 

 and after I had sat down on the side of an ant-heap, stood staring at 



