ZEBRA. 
beautiful markings of the Zebra, affording al- 
lurements to a race of people, who consider 
only the quantity of an animal's fiesh, without 
regarding it's conformation. The delicacy of 
the Zebra's shape, or the painted elegance of 
it's form, are as little esteemed by them, as by 
the lion that in like manner makes it his prey. 
W e may hence reasonably conclude, that the 
Zebra has continued wild, because it is the 
native of a country where no suitable and 
successive efforts have been used to reclaim ir. 
The pursuits hitherto diredled against it, have 
been more against it's life than it's Hberty: 
thus the animal has been taught to consider 
man as it's destroyer, not it's protedlor; and 
we cannot wonder that it should refuse to yield 
obedience where it has so seldom experienced 
mercy. 
Animals, in general, seem to possess a kind 
of instindlive knowledge of their enemies, and 
take everv precaution to avoid them. The 
deer flies from the lion, and the mouse from 
the paws of the cat. The instinct which warns 
these and other animals of their danger, may 
have prevented the Zebra, with many others, 
from 
