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and the ass in stnicture, so it probably brings forth annually as 

 tney do. The noise they make is neither like that of a horse 

 nor an ass, but more resembling the confused barking of a mastifl 

 dog. In the two which I saw, there was a circumstance that 

 seems to have escaped naturalists ; which is, that the skin hangs 

 loose below the jaw upon the neck, in a kind of dewlap, which 

 takes away much from the general beauty. But whether this 

 be a natural or accidental blemish, I will not take upon me to 

 determine. 



These animals are often sent as presents to the princes of the 

 East. We are told, that one of the governors of Batavia gave 

 a zebra, which had been sent to him from Africa, to the emperor 

 of Japan, for which he received, as an equivalent for the com- 

 pany, a present, to the value of sixty thousand crowns ' Teller 

 aiso relates, that the Great Mogul gave two thousand ducats for 

 one of them. And it is frequent with the African ambassadors 

 to the court of Constantinople, to bring some of these animals 

 with them, as presents for the Grand Signior. 



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