FEMALE ZEBRA. 
which it was turned out to grass at night. 
Nature seems to have designed them for the 
beast of draft, or of burden, for this country ; 
and they certainly might be broke for the car- 
riage or the saddle. They are used to the food 
which the harsh drv pastures of Africa produce ; 
are in no terror of wild beasts; nor are subject 
to the epidemic distemper which destroys so 
many Horses of the European offspring : and 
it may generally be observed, that both the 
Oxen and Horses, introduced into this country, 
lose the strength and powers of those in Eu- 
rope. 'V 
Such is the account which Pennant gives us 
of the Quagga : and to this we may add, that 
Edwards, in the description of his Male Zebra, 
observes that ** our old natural historians have 
all mentioned this animal, and some of tliem 
describe a Striped Horse r but," says he, " I 
am firmly persuaded, that the Striped Horse, 
and the Zebra, collecled by Aldrovand and 
Gesner, and copied by a numerous tribe of 
their successors, are notliing but the Zebra ; 
many of the old vovagers having called it a 
Hcisc, fiom it's si/e ; and others a Wild Ass, 
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