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That it is impossible to reduce this quadruped to a domestic 

 state is currently believed. In contradiction, we would state 

 that a female Zebra, which had been caught young, and sent by 



the GoTernor of the Cape of Good Hope to the Jardin des Plantes 

 ia Paris, was so tractable that it allowed itself to be approached 

 and led almost as readily as a Horse. 



