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In Cape Colony, where these zebras are, as far as possible, preserved, 

 small troops are to be found in the mountains of the Sneeuwberg, 

 Witteberg, Tandtjesberg, Zwartberg, the Winterhoek, and one or two 

 other ranges. A few still linger along the Drakensberg. . . . Near 

 Cradock, . . . only a few years since, a troop of twenty was seen." 

 Under date of January 23, 1935, Herbert Lang, the well-known 

 explorer and authority on large game mammals of South Africa, 



FIG. 36. Mountain Zebra (Equus zebra zebra). After photographs in 

 Brehm and Newnes. 



wrote that "there must be still about a hundred Mountain Zebras 

 in various places in spite of the reports to the contrary. In 1926 

 I traveled through all these regions to observe these zebras in their 

 haunts. One must have seen these herds of Mountain Zebras on 

 their actual trails to be enthusiastic about them and their protec- 

 tion. There can hardly be anything more fascinating." By 1937, 

 according to editorial notes in the Journal of the Society for the 

 Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire, a census of these zebras 

 showed the following 45: in the Oudtshoorn Area, near George, 20 

 on the farm of Peter. Heyns ; in the Cradock Area, 10 on the farm of 

 Paul Michau, 8 on the farm of Lombard, 7 on that of Osborn. The 



