ZEBRA. 
lutely bent on exhibiting a determined and 
most invincible resistance. BufFon adds, that 
the Zebra's mouth is extremely hard; his ear 
are so sensible, that he flings whenever they 
are touched; and, like a vicious horse, he is as 
restless and as stubborn as a mule.. But the 
wild horse, and the onager, are perhaps equally 
untra6lable ; and he thinks it extremely pro- 
bable that, if the Zebra were early accustomed 
to obedience, and to a domestic state, it would 
become equally gentle with the ass and the 
horse, and might supply the place of both. 
The Zebra, too, presented to our queen, 
soon after her arrival in England, and which 
was for some years kept in her majesty's sta- 
bles near Buckingham House, though taken 
young, and treated with the utmost indulgence,, 
was extremely vicious and untraftable. 
In agreement with these, is the account of" 
several Zebras being sent to Brasil, not one of 
which could be tam.ed. They would only per- 
mit a single person to approach them; and, 
though tied up short, and secured with all ima- 
ginable care, one of the animals contrived' 
to 
