502 APPEN*DIX. 



They are fed with the bark of trees, and on breads 

 and such is their propensity to gnaw wood, that it is 

 by no means safe, notwithstanding the natural gen- 

 tleness of their disposition, ta allow them the full 

 range of a room, for they would soon eat their way 

 OLit^ a«id escape. 



THE ZEBRA ^'. 



Severalof these animals have at different times 

 heen brought into England. There is one at pre- 

 sent in the Tower, which was deposited there in 

 June last. It was brought from the Cape of Good 

 Hops by lieutenant general Dundas ; and was after- 

 wards purchased by Mr. Bullock, the master keeper 

 of tlic animals In the Tower. 



This animal, which is a female, is more docile 

 than the generality of Zebras that have been brought 

 into Europe ; and when in good humour, she is to- 

 lerably obedient to the commands of her keeper, 

 the servant of the general who attended her during 

 the voyage, This man, with great dexterity, can 

 spring on her back, and she will carry him a hun- 

 dred and hfty, or two hundred yards, but by the 

 time she has done this, she always becomics restive, 

 jmd, with almost equal dexterit}'', he is obliged to 

 dismount. Sometimes when irritated she plunges 

 at the keeper, and attempts to kick him. She one 

 day seized him by the coat with her mouth, and 

 threw him upon the ground, and had not the man 

 « , II 



* See vol. ii. p. 112. 



