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ZEBRAS, QUAG GAS, AND ASSES 



water greedily, disposing of three buckets at a time. After three 

 weeks' attempt to keep him aHve and tame him, he finally perished 

 of exhaustion. I heard some years after that a fresh troop of zebras 

 trekked into the Witteberg from some other range to take the place 

 of this vanished herd." 



" In the old days in Cape Colony," continues Mr. Bryden, " the 

 Boers were in the habit of hunting zebras for the sake of their hides, 



Fir.. 23. — Ward's Zebra. 



and of capturing the young alive for the purpose of being broken 

 to harness. The adult zebra is practically untamable, and several 

 instances are on record of the ferocity of these creatures. The Boers, 

 to save themselves the trouble of shooting, occasionally succeeded in 

 driving a number of these animals over the edge of a precipice, thus 

 securing the skins at their leisure. Pringle mentions the instance of 

 a young Boer, who was engaged in this kind of chase, when a zebra 

 turned on him, seized him by the foot with its teeth, and actually 

 succeeded in biting and tearing it from the limb, the young man 

 subsequently dying from the wound. When captured young, the 

 zebra seems to be capable of being broken and becoming amenable 



