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like wheel of the troop when disturbed. Cornwallis 

 Harris seems to have noticed this trait. He writes 

 thus picturesquely of it : " Moving slowly across 

 the profile of the ocean-like horizon, uttering a shrill 

 barking neigh, of which its name forms a correct 

 imitation, long files of quaggas continually remind 

 the early traveller of a rival caravan on its march." 



Never more, alas ! will this fleet and handsome 

 creature scour its primeval karroos, or proudly pace 

 in regular formation, or with its fellows wheel and 

 charge like a regiment of cavalry. It has been 

 the first of the matchless fauna of South Africa to 

 disappear. That its extinction may serve as some 

 sort of warning to wanton and ruthless destroyers 

 of game, whether Boer or British, or of any other 

 nationality, is devoutly to be hoped. 



