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native of countries where the human inhabitants arc 

 but little raised above the quadruped. The natives 

 of Angola or Cafraria, have no other idea of advan- 

 tage from horses^ but as they are good for food ; 

 neither the fine stature of the Arabian courser, nor 

 the delicate colourings of the zebra, have any al* 

 lurements to a race of people who only consider the 

 quantity of flesh, and not its conformation. The 

 delicacy of the zebra's shape, or the painted elegance 

 of iU form, arc no more regarded by such, than by 

 the lion that makes it his prey. Perhaps the zebra 

 may have hitherto continued wild, because it is the 

 native of a country where there have been no ef- 

 forts made to reclaim it. All pursuits then were ra- 

 ther against its life than its liberty ; the animal has 

 thus been long taught to consider man as its mortal 

 enemy: and it rs not to be wondered, that it refuses 

 to yield obedience where it has so seldom experi- 

 enced mercy. 



All animals seem perfectly to know their enemies, 

 and to avoid them at the same time ; which we can. 

 not account for. Instinct, indeed, may teach the 

 deer to fly from the lion ; or the mouse to avoid the 

 cat : but what is the principle that teaches the dog 

 to attack the dog-butcher wherever he sees him ? In 

 China, where the killing and dressing dogs is a trade, 

 whenever one of these move out, all the dogs in 

 the village, or the street, are sure to be after him. 



1 have seen, (says Dr. G ) more than onu instance 

 c'f the same kind among ourselves. I have seen a 

 poor fellow, who made a practice of stealing and kill- 

 ing dogs for their skins, pursued hue and cry for 

 three or four streets together, by all the bolder breed 

 of dogs, while the weaker Hew from his presence 

 with aff right. 



How these animals could thus find out their enemy 

 and pursue him, is unaccountable ; but such is the 

 fact ; and it not only obtains in dogs, but in several 

 other animals, though perhaps to a less degree. 

 The noise of the zebra is neither like that of a, 

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