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and other peculiarities, we will thankfully accept 

 the dictum of that well-known and competent 

 observer, Major Stevenson-Hamilton, who says 

 of these subdivisions that " there is really no 

 deeply marked lines separating any of them." 

 The other two distinct members of the family. 

 Gravy's Zebra, found in Somaliland and Abyssinia, 

 and the small Mountain Zebra, peculiar to South 

 Africa, are really types which, for the moment 

 at any rate, do not concern us. 



In all the plains of Zambezia zebras are 

 found, sometimes alone and at others consorting 

 with water-buck, wildebeeste, and other antelopes, 

 their herds numbering from six or eight at times 

 to forty or fifty. They are extremely sociable, 

 and very easily tamed; and although efforts 

 hitherto made to utilise them in the same way as 

 ponies have failed, owing chiefly to their want of 

 staying power and forehand, it is still hoped, by 

 means of judicious crossing, in time to evolve an 

 animal which will not be characterised by their 

 unfortunate weaknesses. For driving, the zebra 

 has already in his pure state shown himself to be 

 not unadaptable. A team of these animals was 

 formerly driven in England by a well-meaning if 

 eccentric individual, whilst both in South and 

 British and German East Africa they have been 

 captured and tamed in considerable numbers, and 

 occasionally utilised for the same purpose. I was 

 informed by the late Count Gotzen, at one time 

 Governor of German East Africa, that regular 

 drives were organised there for the capture of these 

 animals, and but little difficulty is experienced 



