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NATURAL HISTORY, 
66. “I bred him myself. He is sometimes skit- 
tish and playful, and once ran away from me : you 
will hardly believe it, but there were more than fifty 
people after him, endeavouring in vain to stop him, 
yet he turned back of himself, and never stopped till 
he ran his head into my bosom.” 
THE ZEBRA. 
67. The Zebra is found only in the eastern and 
southern parts of Africa, but chiefly in the southern 
parts : whole herds are often seen grazing in those 
extensive plains that lie near the Cape of Good Hope. 
68. The Zebra is one of the most elegant and un- 
tameable of animals. Its skin is as smooth as satin, 
and adorned with elegant stripes, like ribands, which 
are brown and white on the male, and black and 
white on the female. The body is round and plump, 
and the legs of a delicate smallness. Its voice is 
thought to have a distant resemblance to the sound 
of a post horn. 
Where is the Zebra found 1 
Describe the Zebra. 
