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neighbour in size and majesty, while he exceeds him in 
grace and agility; and a second, of about ten months 
old, apparently belonging to the pale variety, and who 
is just beginning to exhibit the first faint outline of the 
mane. The former of these is remarkably beautiful and 
docile: he became an inmate of the 'Tower in May, 1827; 
and was, during his voyage from the Cape, being then 
very young, so tame and domesticated as to be allowed 
to run about the deck like a dog. 
