450 THE HORSE. 



infancy of intellect, we might wonder that this the native 

 Horse of Southern Africa had not long ere now been sub- 

 jected to domestication. It is more surprising that the 

 European inhabitants of the Cape Colony should have omit- 

 ted to subdue an animal so easy to be obtained. These 

 lethargic Colonists, however, have manifested equal indif- 

 ference to the other means by which their intercourse with 

 one another might be facilitated. They have not introduced 

 the Camel, so well adapted to the long journeyings of a sandy 

 country ; nor the Mule, which would doubtless surpass the 

 Ox for the transporting of merchandise. 



The STRIPED QUAGGA, the Dauw, or Bonti Quagga of the 

 Cape colonists, was long mistaken for the Zebra, until it 

 was distinguished from it by Burchell, from whom it has 

 been termed Equus Burchellii. He is about the height of 

 the Common Quagga, but less robust in his proportions. He 

 has the ears comparatively short, and the hair of the tail 

 white and long ; and his arching neck is surmounted by an 

 upright mane, about five inches in length, streaked with 

 alternate bands of black and white. The muzzle is black ; 

 the general colour of the head, neck, and body, is a light 

 sienna-brown, variously streaked with black and deep brown 

 bands ; the belly, legs, and tail, are of a pure white. 



This beautiful creature is found within the territories of 

 the Cape, but chiefly beyond the Gariep river, where it is 

 seen in great herds, stretching over boundless plains. It 

 extends to an unknown distance, probably beyond the line, 

 even to the southern mountains of Abyssinia. It has been 

 found in Congo, with a slight difference in colour, and may 

 be supposed to vary in other places with the physical state 

 of the country it inhabits. 



The Zebras, the Quaggas, and the Dauws, that people the 

 wild regions of Southern Africa, confound the imagination 

 by their numbers. Mingled with the Gnoos, the Elands, the 

 Caamas, the Camelopards, and all the beautiful species of 

 Antelopes, they gladden the face of the wilderness, and give 



