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Unfortunately mules are often vicious, stubborn, and difficult 

 to manage, and probably on this account have not so far been used 

 so much as might be desired in the development of the resources 

 of the mountainous parts of the empire. A partial solution to 

 the problem may perhaps be found in the employment of zebra- 

 mules, i.e. crosses between horse and zebra (fig. 1175), which are 

 much more docile than ordinary mules. This step has been advo- 

 cated by Captain Lugard, Major von Wissmann, and Professor 



Fig. 1175. "Sir John", one of Prof. Cossar Ewart's Zebra Hybrid 

 dam "Tundra", an Iceland pony) 



>o", see fig. 



Cossar Ewart, the last of whom makes the following remarks 

 on the subject (in The Penycuik Experiments]'. " I have already 

 referred to the views of Captain Lugard. He writes: * Some 

 years ago I advocated experiments on taming the zebra, and I 

 especially suggested that an attempt should be made to obtain 

 zebra-mules by horse or donkey mares. Such mules, I believe, 

 would be found excessively hardy, and impervious to the * fly ' 

 and to climatic diseases. ... I would even go further, and say 

 that their export might prove one of the sources of revenue and 

 wealth in the future; for, as everyone knows, the paucity of 

 mules both for mountain batteries and for transport purposes 

 has long been one of the gravest difficulties in our otherwise 



