296 THE WILDERNESS AND JUNGLE 



Queensland were left there by the Dutch when 

 they abandoned their settlement at Port Dar- 

 win, to which they had brought over the 

 buffaloes from Sumatra. The same may be 

 said of the wild camels of Andalusia, which 

 originated in some that were imported by a 

 Spanish grandee to work on his estate. 



Other creatures have been tamed on a small 

 scale. The eland, grandest of all antelopes, 

 has been driven in harness, and its strength 

 must certainly be prodigious. That handsome 

 striped horse the zebra has also been sub- 

 dued, though neither of these achievements 

 was the work of the negro, who contented 

 himself with catching them in pitfalls, or 

 shooting them with poisoned arrows, and then 

 eating them. We may, of course, from our 

 superior pinnacle of civilisation, condemn the 

 negro, but we should in fairness remember 

 that at times he must kill game or starve. 

 And what sort of example, after all, do we 

 set this primitive son of Africa ? Simply doing 

 for amusement what he does to keep alive. 

 The zebra is not everyone's choice of a do- 

 mestic animal, though it has been seen in 

 harness even in this country. Now and then 

 wild zebras show every inclination to fraternise 

 with farm animals, and there was a case of one 

 attaching itself to the cattle on a farm in Zulu- 

 land, making itself quite at home, and refusing 



