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he became very tame and domesticated, allowing 
himself to be led about by a rope and head collar, 
and would drink from a bucket and eat from my 
hand. He used to be left to graze picketed by a 
long rope to a stake in the ground ; but one after- 
noon on returning to camp I found, much to my 
‘“WE MANAGED TO BRING THEM IN TRIUMPH TO THE CAMP.” 
annoyance, that he had disappeared. On making 
enquiry, I learned from my servants that a herd of 
wild zebra had galloped close by, and that this had 
so excited him that he managed to tear the picket- 
ing peg out of the ground and so rejoin his brethren 
in freedom. 
Some few days after our successful sortie against 
Pp 2 
