ZEBRA. 
either of those animals, rather resembling the 
confused barking of a mastifF dog. 
The Zebra is considered as a valuable pre- 
sent to the oriental princes ; and a governor 
of Batavia, who sent one which he had re- 
ceived from Africa, to the Emperor of Japan, 
had an equivalent returned to the value of 
sixty thousand crowns. Teller also informs 
us, that the Great Mogul gave two thousand 
ducats for a Zebra ; and it is not uncommon 
for the African ambassadors to take with them 
some of these beautiful creatures as intro- 
dudVory presents to the Grand Seignior. 
BuiFon inclines to the opinion, that the fer- 
tile mule of Tartary, called the czigithai, is 
an animal of the same species with the Zebra. 
[ here seems to be no difference between them 
but in colour; and the variations -of colour 
alone, in hair or feathers, are known to be ex- 
tremely slight distindlions, frequently depending 
on the nature of the climate. The czigithai 
is found in the southern parts of Siberia, in 
Thibet, and in Tartarv. Gerbillon remarks, 
that 
