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arrival, and was never completely tamed. He was, indeed, 

 broken for the saddle, but his untractableness rendered 

 great precaution necessary ; and two men were obliged to 

 hold the bridle while another was riding. 



A beautiful male Zebra, at Exeter' Change, London, ap- 

 peared to have entirely lost his native wildness, and was so 

 gentle as to suffer children to sit quietly on his back, with- 

 out any symptom of displeasure. He was familiar with 

 strangers, and received their caresses with evident satisfac- 

 tion. 



There was one in the Tower of London in 1814, which 

 was a female ; she would carry her keeper a little distance, 

 but w r ould then become restive, and kick violently. When 

 angry she plunged, and tried to seize him with her teeth ; 

 and she was always savage towards strangers. 



The Zebra is a native of the southern part of Africa, 

 from Abyssinia to the Cape of Good Hope, and from Mo- 

 zambique to Congo. 



You see, children, that the Almighty Being has displayed 

 to us the exuberance of his power, by bestowing such a 

 profusion of beauty on the inhabitants of the desert, as well 

 as a remarkable adaptation of qualities on those designed 

 for the service of man, 



