HOW WILD ANIMALS ARE CAUGHT 71 
The animals are then fettered, and driven oft to the huts of 
the natives. There they are fastened up, by ropes attached 
to each of the 
four legs, and 
tied to pegs. In 
a few days’ time 
they become 
quiet and can 
soon be driven 
about, without 
any necessity for 
taking — precau- 
tionary mea- 
sures. Grévy’s 
zebra, the species 
of which I am Captured zebras in the kraal. 
here writing, is (German East Africa). 
easily domesticated. It has, moreover, a strong constitution 
which would fit it well for the service of man in more civilised 
countries. The Kilimanjaro zebra, on the other hand, is 
a difficult animal to tame ; in its stubbornness it is very like 
a donkey. 
In the Sudan, at the end of the Mahdi’s régime, we found 
the country changed, not only in respect of the game, but 
also in respect of the people who used to be our friends and 
assistants. Misfortunes had so overwhelmed them that the 
famous tribe of Hamran, from which all the best sword- 
hunters were derived, was reduced to twenty men. Sword- 
hunting itself was no longer practised, and was known to the 
younger generation only through the tales of their parents. 
The Havati or water-hunters also were no more. Both 
these methods of killing game had been superseded by the 
more effective, if less exciting, rifle of modern times. 
The capture of young animals is effected in other ways 
besides that of chasing them until they are overcome with 
fatigue. Traps of various kinds are used ; and in the case of 
