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great swiftness from one place to another in search of food and 

 water. It is wary and timid, and its great fleetness, in which, 

 according to the testimony of numerous travellers, it surpasses 

 all other quadrupeds, secures it from heasts of prey, and enables 

 it easily to outstrip the horses and dogs of the hunter. 



The Tartars, who are fond of its flesh, sometimes kill it by 

 ambush and stratagem, and sometimes secure it by surrounding it 

 with a circle of hunters, after the Asiatic fashion. The form of the 

 Dzigguctai is strikingly characteristic of an animal made for swift 

 running, having the various points of figure which distinguish the 

 racing or blooded horse, a figure which is produced in the horse 

 by the efforts of art and by careful breeding, but which belongs to 

 the Dzigguctai by nature. 



The Zebra, a native of Southern Africa, is, perhaps, the 

 handsomest and most elegantly clothed of all quadrupeds. He has 



the shape and graces of the horse, the swiftness of the stag, and 

 a striped robe of black and white alternately disposed with so 

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