The Zebra 



striped skins, finely pencilled faces, and hog 

 manes, added to which they usually look nice 

 and sleek and well-cared for, but that by no 

 manner of means makes up for their ruffianly 

 habits and noisiness. No one wants to shoot one 

 except as ''meat for the porters." The flesh is 

 too tough and strong for the white man. 



Both species are to be met with in British East 

 Africa, Grevy's and Burchell's. GreVy's zebra is 

 much bigger than Burchell's, and is much more 

 narrowly striped ; besides, the stripes on the 

 flanks and quarters do not turn backwards as 

 they do in Burchell's (as the pictures of the latter 

 show), but run up nearly straight almost to the 

 black stripe down the back, from which they are, 

 however, separated by a narrow space of plain 

 white. The latter is the kind ordinarily met 

 with. 



No! I hate the zebra. He is a very "loud" 

 animal, taking him all round. 



They have been caught in large herds for the 

 purpose of trying to domesticate them, and of 

 breeding from them by crossing the mares with 

 pony stallions, but with small success, I fancy. 

 The capture of them is undertaken by a few of 

 the officials, who organize a large mob of Masai 

 savages to drive the country for miles around, 

 gradually closing in ; and eventually an old decoy 

 zebra entices the herd, if the drive is at all 

 successful, across a ford in a river into a specially 



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