ZEBRA. 
to get loose, and adlually bit the groom to 
death. 
But, if we may credit Dapper, the Portu- 
guese so far succeeded, as to tame four Zebras, 
which were sent from Africa to Lisbon, and 
adlually drew the king's coach; and two arq 
( said, by Buffon, to have been received in Hol- 
land, for the purpose of drawing that of the 
stadthoider. Merolla asserts, that the Zebra, 
when tamed, which he speaks of as being very 
• common, is not less estimable for swiftness 
\' than beauty, 
I: ■ 
I Though the Zebra is a native of so hot a 
climate, it seems capable of existing in any 
country not intensely cold ; and one of these 
animals, which was a few years since exhi- 
bited in England, would eat bread, meat, and 
tobacco, as well as grass or hay. 
The female is supposed to bring forth her 
young annually, like the horse and the ass 
kind, but of this there is no certain testimony. 
The voice of the Zebra, however, is unlike 
either 
