ZEBRA. 
Utility as well as ornament, that it might seem 
peculiarly calculated by nature to gratify the 
pride and pleasure of man. But it appears, 
to have uniformly evinced a lofty disdain of 
servitude; and neither force, stratagem, nor 
mildness, have been able materially to abate 
the just sense it seems always to entertain of 
the conscious dignity of it's native indepen- 
dence. The persevering tyranny of man, 
however, which has long since subjugated the 
horse and tlie -ass — both, probably, when first 
taken from the forest, equally ferocious, obsti- 
nate and unmanageable — will, in time, it can 
hardly be doubted, add this animal to the num- 
ber of those which are already obje6ts of his 
domestic despotism. 
That this has not hitherto been efFe6):ed, 
may in some measure be accounted for. In 
the countries where these animals most abound, 
the human inhabitants appear to be but a few 
degrees elevated above the quadruped. The 
natives of Angola andCafFraria have no other 
idea of advantage to be derived from animals, 
than as they are proper for food. Neither the 
fine stature of the Arabian courser, nor the 
beautiful 
