The Asses and Zebras differ from the Horse in the characters mentioned under the description of Equus caballus.
Opinions as to the number of species of Asses differ.
Mr. Lort Phillips, an experienced naturalist and traveller, saw a herd of these Wild Asses in Somaliland, which he regarded as being of quite a new species.
The best known of the Asiatic Wild Assesis the Onager, E.
It is an interesting fact that the African Wild Asses approach to the zebra type in having at least traces of stripings.
The genus Equus[150] contains not only the Horse, but the Asses and Zebras.
As already mentioned, the Horse differs from the Asses and Zebras in the fact that the hind-limbs have callosities on the inner side.
Herodotus mentions asseshaving horns; and Strabo refers to Unicorn horses, with the heads of deers.
At the corners of the busiest streets, and on the market-places, stood boys with asses which they hired out for a small sum; [In the streets of modern Egyptian townsasses stand saddled for hire.
When she looked down on the court, she found that it was filled with horses and riders, slaves were busy unloading asses and camels.
Dogs and jackals howled incessantly, and thirsty cows and asses answered them from their stuffy stalls.
Let the camels crush my breast and the asses dig their hoofs into my eyes!
After resuming our laical toilette, and dressing gaily for the great festival, we mounted our asses about the cool of the afternoon, and, returning to Muna, we found the tent full of visitors.
The boy Mohammed and I, mounting asses one evening, issued through the Meccan gate, and turned towards the North-East over a sandy plain.
The surly donkey-boy was worked up into a paroxysm of passion by such small jokes as telling him to convey our salams to the Governor of Jeddah, and by calling the asses after the name of his tribe.
Mounting asses which resembled mules in size and speed,[FN#20] we rode to the Harim, and prayed there.
Khalawi) are equally despised; they are generally blacksmiths, have a fine breed of greyhounds, and give assesas a dowry, which secures for them the derision of their fellows.
Asses come from Egypt and Meccah: I am told that some good animals are to be found in the town, and that certain ignoble Badawi clans have a fine breed, but I never saw any.
We had been obliged to leave our asses on the shore, for they would neither advance nor recede.
Till then our asses had been quite docile; but, annoyed with their riders so long upon their backs, they refused to go forward.
The Moors being soon acquainted with our fears, made us all kinds of protestations; and seeing we persisted in quitting the camp, offered us asses to carry us as far as the Senegal.
And these diverse rulers brought as tribute ten thousand asses of diverse hues and black necks and huge bodies and great speed and much docility and celebrated all over the world.
And these asses were all of goodly size and delightful colour.
Jackals began to cry frightfully from within the sacred fire- chamber of Duryodhana, and asses from all directions began to bray in response.
And the people of Valhika gave unto him as tribute ten thousand asses, of goodly size and black necks and daily running two hundred miles, And those asses were of many shapes.
And, O king, unto the jackal that howled so, the assesbegan to bray responsively.
Thy Asses are gone about 'em; the reason why the seuen Starres are no mo then seuen, is a pretty reason Lear.
No wonder, my Lord: one Lion may, when many Asses doe.
Then about one hundred and twenty great and terrible animals came out from the wilderness at the other side of the sea, and they all came to the place where the asses were, and they placed themselves there.
And through God's great mercy and kindness, I acquired oxen and asses and cattle and men-servants and maid servants.
Three asses were missing; one died in the course of the evening, and one next morning, and they were forced to leave one behind the next day.
It is frequently affirmed that asses are never troubled with Fleas or other vermin; and, among the superstitious, it is said that it is all owing to the riding of Christ upon one of these animals.
Luckily, most of the asses were loose, and galloped up the valley; but the horses and people were very much stung, and obliged to scamper off in all directions.
Setting fire to his neighbour's corn, and killing his assesby night.
What aileth them, therefore, that they turn aside from the admonition of the Koran, as though they were timorous asses flying from a lion?
It was sometimes decorated with asses ears, or else terminated in the neck and head of a cock,[65] a fashion as old as the fourteenth century.
Now said this Hemti, when he saw the asses of Sekhti, that were pleasing in his eyes, “Oh that some good god would grant me to steal away the goods of Sekhti from him!
And one of the asses filled its mouth with a cluster of corn.
The Peasant And The Workman There dwelt in the Sekhet Hemat—or Salt Country—a peasant called the Sekhti, with his wife and children, his asses and his dogs; and he trafficked in all good things of the Sekhet Hemat to Henenseten.
He thus describes the region: “Neither asses nor mules can be used here.
When the priest of Baal was en route to Moab's capital for cursing purposes an angel tried to withhold him, and even his burro rebuked him, but neither angels nor assesare exempt from the law of evolution.
The recent amusements afforded by riding asses as ponies, and racing on them, although strong efforts of modern sagacity, were anticipated by our forefathers.
Poppæa followed him with five hundred she asses to furnish milk for her bath.
I saw singleasses in ploughs proportioned to their strength.
One of their little asses will travel with his burthen about five or six leagues a day, and day by day; a mule from six to eight leagues.
Neither asses nor mules: yet it is said that the fine mules I have met with on my journey, are raised in Poictou.
Paths penetrate up into the mountains in several directions, about three fourths of a mile; but these are practicable only for asses and mules.
The best asses will carry two hundred pounds; the best horses three hundred pounds; the best mules six hundred pounds.
All weathers and all hours She crossed the hill, as hardy as her beasts, Bearing the wind and rain and winter frosts, And if she did not reach her home at night She laid her down in the stable with her asses And slept as sound as they did.
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