Another cousin, the Wild Ass, still 

 roams the arid brush of Somaliland and 

 Ethiopia. A handsome, strong, bluish- 

 grey animal, standing as much as 

 twelve hands at the withers, it is swift 

 and graceful. Even bigger is the Asiatic 

 Wild Ass, the Kiang, which still exists 

 in Tibet and Mongolia, sometimes in 

 the hills as much as 16,000 feet above 

 sea-level. 



The humble domestic donkey goes 

 on bearing its load through the 

 ages . . . even on the road to 

 Samarkand, as in this picture. 

 Overworked, derided, the donkey 

 yet made one journey more glo- 

 rious than any its more glamorous 

 cousin, the horse, ever carried out. 



'Tell ye the daughter of Sion, 

 Behold, thy King cometh unto thee. 

 Meek, and sitting upon an ass . . .' 



