ZEBRA. 
from submitting to those from whom, while 
they had every thing to dread, they had no- 
thing to hope. 
Should the Cape of Good Hope, which 
we have recently taken from the Dutch, con- 
tinue in our possession, the period of tliis ani- 
mal's being tamed, and rendered serviceable^ 
may probably not be very distant : and if we 
could, by proper care, improve the breed, as 
we have done in many other instances, we 
might at length acquire a new race of domestic 
animals, as large as the horse, and far more 
strong, fleet, and beautiful. 
The male Zebra, however, in the Royal 
Menagerie at Paris, from which BufFon took 
his description, could never be entirely con- 
quered, notwithstanding all the assiduous ef- 
forts made to reclaim him. A groom, indeed, 
was sometimes able to mount him, with the 
assistance of two other men to hold the reins : 
but such was his extreme fierceness, that the 
rider never considered himself safe on his 
back; and even the approach of any one 
always seemed to render the animal more reso- 
lutely 
