SB TRAVELS IN 
The qiiagga Is not in reality, and cannot bo 
engendered between a wild horfe and the ze- 
bra ; for there are no wild horfes indigenous 
in the fouthern part of Africa. The horfes 
feen there at prefent have been carried thither 
from Europe ; but thefe never ftray from the 
colonies, and none ever advanced, before mine, 
to the twenty-fifth degree of latitude, where 
there are both quaggas and zebras. 
Befides, if that animal were a baftard breed 
of the zebra, the young ones, v^^hile fuckled by 
the mothers, would be feen following them in 
the herds of zebras : but this has never been 
obferved ; and the herds of both fpecies have 
ss little intercourfe as the different herds of 
antelopes. 1 have often feen, in the plains, 
herds of zebras and herds of quaggas at 
the fame time j but I always faw them fcr 
parate. 
To all thefe proofs I fhall add that, before 
European horfes were introduced at the Cape, 
the quagga exifted there, and was known to 
the natives. This animal is much fmaller than 
the zebra ; and its cry has a perfed: refem- 
blance to the barking of a dog. With regard 
to that of the zebra, it is exadly Hke the found 
of 
