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utilize the splendid capabilities of the animal. 

 Immune alike from the tse-tse disease and the 

 horse sickness, the quagga might have served as 

 an efficient substitute for the horse in unhealthy 

 localities, as suggested for Grevy's zebra in a 

 previous chapter : now it is too late. Truly 

 indeed : 



" The evil that men do lives after them, 

 The good is oft interred with their bones." 



It only remains to express the hope that the 

 fate of the quagga may serve as an object lesson, 

 and that the recent efforts to protect the remnant 

 of the South African fauna, as indicated by the 

 new Government regulations and by the formation 

 of a Game Preservation Committee at Pretoria, 

 may meet with lasting success. But if not : Ex 

 ^mo disce omnes ! 



