350 WILD ANIMALS. 



where it was said they were often whimsically trained to 

 harness. 



In the latter part of the last century the Queen of Portugal used 

 to drive about Lisbon in an equipage drawn by eight zebras. How 

 she procured these animals does not appear to have been recorded, 

 but they probably came from Angola or some other South African 

 territory over which the Portugese held jurisdiction. M. Dureau 

 de la Malle, in 1802, was told by a friend, M. Corea de Serra, 

 Secretary to the Lisbon Academy, that he had often seen her 

 Majesty driving about with her beautiful zebra-drawn equipage. 

 A relic of these animals exists in the name by which one of the 

 royal stables in Lisbon is known, for it is still called the Zebra 

 stable. 



Karey, the great American horse-tamer, subdued a very savage 

 specimen of a zebra, which was owned by the London Zoological 

 Society. The account is quoted from Mr. Thorpe's article in 

 " Harper's New Monthly Magazine," for April, 1861, who 

 writes : " The triumph of Mr. Rarey over a zebra, was in many 

 respects one of his most remarkable achievements. This 

 beautiful but wild creature has not, at least in modern times, 

 been looked upon any more as a beast of burden than is the 

 Hon ; its nature was supposed to be essentially unmanageable — 

 partaking, indeed, of the worst qualities of the lowest represen- 

 tatives of its species, and really not possessed, it has always 

 seemed, of intelligence enough to be subdued. That Mr. Rarey, 

 therefore, found in this ' child of the desert ' enough of the horse 

 nature to control and inspire with confidence in the friendly 

 intentions of man is indeed remarkable. 



" The zebra's mode of proceeding before he was tamed, if any 

 one entered his stable, was first to spring to the top of the rack, 

 seize the cross-beam with his teeth, and absolutely hang in that 

 position, which extraordinary proceeding enabled him to keep 

 aU his feet freely kicking in the air, ready to destroy any one 

 who should approach him. 



" On the zebra's first appearance in the arena, he was firmly 

 lashed and held by his keepers, and while thus restrained he 

 crunched upon his immense gag, or hard wooden bit, screamed like 



