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never see it,’ I answered, staring my eyes out in the direction indicated by him. 
And I verily believe I might have stared for hours had not the zebra heard my 
shikari, who was shouting and gesticulating close to my ear. When the zebra moved 
I could hardly believe my eyes. It seemed to have appeared out of space. I had 
been staring at him as he stood broadside on to me quite close, and not until now 
had I seen him! 
The neigh of the 
Somali zebra is a grunt and 
squeal, and can easily be 
distinguished from the neigh 
of Burchell’s zebra. The 
sound, when heard close 
by one’s camp at night, is 
weird and uncanny in the 
extreme. ‘The zebra’s neigh 
was often answered by my 
donkeys in camp. Zebras 
are always found in the 
vicinity of water, for they 
must drink every night. One 
of the finest collections of 
zebras and wild asses in 
captivity in Europe is_ to 
be found at the present 
moment in the Zoological 
Gardens in Regent’s Park. 
The collection contains 
specimens of several forms 
of zebra, namely, Grévy’s, 
Grant’s, Chapman’s and the 
Mountain Zeb Ely besides Photograph by C. V. A. Peel. a ao 
the onager, the kiang, the / GREVY'S ZEBRA AT HOME. 
Egyptian wild ass, the 
Somal wild ass and Przevalsky’s horse. My photographs of the latter animal were 
taken in the Zoological Garden in Moscow, the first city in Europe in which these 
animals were publicly exhibited. 
The Berlin Zoological Garden has also a fine collection of horses, asses and zebras, 
and all the Continental gardens possess a specimen of the Shetland pony, with which 
animal foreigners seem hugely delighted. 
Burchell’s zebras have often been broken to harness, especially in South Africa, 
and here in England Mr. Walter Rothschild used to drive a team of these 
animals. Zebras are extremely difficult to catch even when very young, and it takes 
a good horse to come up with a foal and separate it from its dam. A Burchell’s 
zebra costs, in Europe, from a hundred to a hundred and fifty pounds. 
The flesh of wild asses, horses and zebras is not at all.bad, but the brilliant 
yellow fat, when seen uncooked, is rather apt to put one off horse flesh. 
Mr. Carl Hagenbeck, of Hamburg, is one of the biggest importers of wild asses, 
horses and zebras, and when last at his animal park in Stellingen, near Hamburg, I 
saw a herd there of no Jess than seventy Burchell’s zebras which had all been 
captured in German Hast Africa. These animals soon get distributed all over Kurope, 
and many go to the United States, for the Americans have now some very fine 
