WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



could be materially improved in a short time, and be 

 made stronger and more useful. 



While I declare, emphatically, that it is a hopeless 

 undertaking to capture zebras, and to press them into 

 service, they have even been talked of as mounts for 

 the colonial troops. I do heartily endorse any scheme 

 calculated to imiprove the breed so that in some future 

 time the animals may become what they cannot be 

 now — namely, truly domesticated and useful. Private 

 enterprise can achieve much towards furthering this 

 end, but I believe that the government should make 

 it its duty to try the experiment on a large scale. 

 Within historic time man has domesticated but few 

 wild animals — the turkey, for instance. The race of wild 

 horses in Asia will hardly survive; therefore, it is sure- 

 ly worth while to try to add the zebra to the small 

 number of the useful domestic animal friends of man. 

 It will take a long time— generations, no doubt — and the 

 attempt may prove a failure. The possibility of mak- 

 ing the attempt, at least, has been assured by Count 

 Goetzen, who put the zebra on the list of wild animals 

 to be protected by the colonial governments of East 

 Africa. 



