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ch. xi] ZEBRAS, KANGANIS, ETC. 
The zebra were of both species—the smaller or 
Burchell’s, and the Grevy’s, which the porters call 
kangani. Each species went in herds by itself, and 
almost as frequently we found them in mixed herds 
containing both species. But they never interbreed, 
and associate merely as each does with the oryx. The 
kangani is a fine beast, much bigger than its kinsman; 
it is as large as a polo pony. It is less noisy than the 
common zebra, the 64 bonte quagga ” of the Boers, and 
its cry is totally different. Its gaits are a free, slashing 
trot and gallop. When it stands facing one, the huge 
fringed ears make it instantly recognizable. The stripes 
are much narrower and more numerous than those on 
the small zebra, and in consequence cease to be distin¬ 
guishable at a shorter distance ; the animal then looks 
grey, like a wild ass. When the two zebras are together 
the colouring of the smaller kind is more conspicuous. 
In scanning a herd with the glasses we often failed to 
make out the species until we could catch the broad 
black-and-wdiite stripes on the rump of the common 
46 bonte quagga.” There were many young foals with 
the kangani; I happened not to see any with the 
Burchell’s. I found the kangani even more wary and 
more difficult to shoot than the oryx. The first one 
I killed was shot at a range of four hundred yards ; the 
next I wounded at that distance, and had to ride it 
down, at the cost of a hard gallop over very bad country 
and getting torn by the wait-a-bit thorns. 
There were a number of rhinos on the plains, dull of 
wit and senses, as usual. Three times we saw cows 
with calves trotting at their heels. Once, while my men 
were skinning an oryx, I spied a rhino less than half a 
mile off. Mounting my horse, I cantered down, and 
examined it within a hundred yards. It was an old 
