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called the white zebra : but it is certainly z 
wild afs ; for, inftead of having a ftriped fldn 
hke the zebra, it is of one colour, which has 
a yellow tinge. No animal in all Africa, per- 
haps, is fo fufpicious, and fo fhy as this kind of 
afs. It appears every where in large herds ; 
but I could never get near enough to fire at 
any of them. I have, however, in my pof- 
feffion a fkin, which I purchafed in a horde 
where it w^as employed to cover the hut of a 
favage. There are, therefore, three diftind 
fpecies of the afs in tliie fouthern part of Africa : 
the zebra, the quagga, and the kind above 
mentioued, which is neither fpotted nor 
ftriped. 
At the Cape, the zebra is known under the 
name of Jlreep-e%el (the ftriped afs), and the 
quagga under that of wilde-paerd (the wild 
horfe ^ In the colonies the names and the 
animals are fometimes both confounded ; 
which, in natural hiftory, may occafion errors, 
as Vas really happened; for the quagga has 
often been confidered as the female of the 
zebra. But the quagga an J the zebra are un- 
doubtedly two different fpecies, which, though 
they live in the fame diftrid, have no more 
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