But what has frightened the antelope and quagga that they throw their heads up for a second and fade away into the shadows?
Two hundred yards from the outspan I came upon a clump of quagga and wounded one, which though mortally hit struggled on before falling.
The blind was nothing more than a piece of soft leather tied over the animal's eyes; but so complete had been its effect, that it had transformed the quagga at once from a kicking screaming creature into a docile animal.
He spurred his quagga forward, in order to reach the edge, and get a view down the ravine.
Hendrik's eye was upon him; and in a moment the quagga was turned upon his track.
This gave Hendrik the advantage, who, heading his quagga diagonally, was soon upon the heels of the herd.
He would lose his quagga and his saddle as well--he regarded the eland as already lost--he would have to walk back to camp, and get laughed at on his return.
Instead of turning upon the quagga and showing fight, as one might have supposed so strong and fierce a brute would have done, the hyena uttered a howl of alarm, and ran off as fast as its legs would carry it.
Not only the drove kept on, but Hendrik's quagga following close at their heels; and in less than five minutes they had left the eland a full mile in their rear, and were still scouring onward over the wide plain.
It would have taken a springbok to have leaped out of it; and no quaggacould possibly have cleared itself from such a pit.
In a few minutes more the quagga was close upon his heels; and then the huge antelope, seeing that farther running could not serve him, halted in despair, and faced round towards his pursuer.
He remembered that in taming this same quagga and breaking him to the saddle, he had been vastly aided by a very simple contrivance--that was a "blind.
Of the four species in South Africa, the zebra is a mountain animal, and dwells among the cliffs, while the dauw and quagga rove over the plains and wild karoo deserts.
The quaggawould soon stop, and he could then repair the bit, and re-adjust the bridle which he still held in his hands.
He was curious, moreover, to find out whether his own quagga was quite equal to any of its old companions.
But, to his astonishment, he found that his quaggadid not share his intention.
After making all fast we prepared for supper: a guinea-fowl for myself, and quagga steaks for my boys, and then to bed at 9 p.
After proceeding some few miles we came upon the remains of a quagga that had evidently been killed and eaten by the lions the previous night, as their spoor on the sand was very fresh.
The quagga is very indifferent food, but the striped quagga is very passable; so if you intend to save any for our dinner, pray let it be some of the latter.
The quagga and striped quagga, as you may see, have the ears of a horse, while the zebra has those of the ass.
Nevertheless, white men have elected to shoot zebras as game; and under this curse the unfortunate quagga fell to rise no more.
The quaggaand the blaubok became extinct before the world learned that their existence was threatened!
The quagga resembled a wild ass with a few zebra stripes around its neck, and no stripes elsewhere.
You may see by the figure of the zebra, below, that he is striped all over his body and limbs, while the quagga has stripes only on the head and the fore part of the body.
In our slow course we passed herds of quagga and gazelles, but the animals were wild, and both men and mules were unequal to the task of stalking them.
These are the blaauwbok (Hippotragus leucophaeus) and the true quagga (Equus quagga).
Hence there can be no doubt that the quagga affected the character of the offspring subsequently begot by the black Arabian horse.
Determined to try a quagga--quagga tried me, and very soon found me wanting, A quagga is a brute to buck!
Their colour is bay, marked more or less like the quagga in a darker tint.
They are murderers, to be classed with those who have stamped the quagga out of Africa, or those who fly to firearms if Nature sends a rare migrant creature of air, or earth, or water, in their way.
He was curious moreover, to find out whether his own quagga was quite equal to any of its old companions.
The quagga still held his struggling victim with firm hold--trampling it with his hoofs, and shaking it in his strong jaws, until in a few minutes the screams of the hyena ceased, and his mangled carcass lay motionless upon the plain!
The mountain zebra is very shy and wild; the dauw is almost untameable; while the quagga is of a timid docile nature, and may be trained to harness with as much facility as a horse.
In such a fashion they could not make out what kind of creature was coming towards them; but stood for a long while gazing at Hendrik and his quaggawith feelings of curiosity, and of course some little alarm.
He must fling himself to the ground, and letquagga and saddle go.
Even the quagga is so banded upon the head and upper parts of its body.
The bull had already entered the gorge, and was moving down it, while Hendrik and his quagga were hurrying forward to follow.
He was curious to try the point--much disputed in regard to horses--how far a mounted quagga would be able to cope with an unmounted one.
The Quagga is less than the Zebra, and not so elegantly formed, the hind quarters being higher than the shoulders.
The Quagga bears the reputation of being naturally vicious, and so treacherous that it is said that, like a cat, it will bite the hand that feeds and caresses it.
Crawford will be here long before the Zulus can cross the river, even if he doesn't mount his horse and let the young quagga go.
The mane grows much lower on the forehead than in the horse, but not so low as in the quaggaor zebra.
Their color is bay, marked more or less like the quagga in a darker tint.
The quaggalooked very much astonished at seeing itself surrounded by human beings, and as before, it endeavoured to escape from the pit.
They appeared to be well-disposed towards us, and our friendship was cemented by the feast of quagga flesh which we got ready for them.
As I spoke thequagga turned his head and very nearly caught him by the arm.
Our horses and the quaggawould have fared ill, had the elephants come across them.
At length the shouts and cries around it brought Harry's quagga to a standstill, and enabled us to get alongside.
In vain the quagga tried to get out by the most desperate efforts.
I remember a locality called "Leeuw Dooms" where blesbuck, wildebeeste, and quagga were in almost incredible abundance.
Just beyond the outskirts of the town were herds of wildebeeste, blesbuck, andquagga grazing quietly about, like so many herds of cattle.
Blue wildebeeste and quagga were so plentiful that we seldom wasted ammunition on them.
The quagga skin is even harder; but our native followers cut it out piecemeal from under a Dutch lad who was using it as a bed till they barely left him enough to lie upon.
Quagga skin, indeed, is especially used for this purpose, and hardly for any other, as it is so rigid that the ordinary means for softening leather are of no avail.
While the quagga roams over the plains, the zebra seeks only the high mountainous regions.
The quagga is faintly striped only on the head and neck, but the zebra is adorned on every part of the body with broad black bands, which contrast beautifully with a pale yellow ground.
The quaggais banded over the whole front part of its body like a zebra, but has no stripes on its legs, or mere traces of them.
When a lion passed by, With a hungerful eye, The quaggaran off in alarm.
A quaggastood under a palm In evening's violet calm.
We thus have a case of mutual dislike between the quagga and the dauw which cannot be explained by competition for food.
The fact that thequagga lives together with ruminants feeding on the same grass as itself excludes that hypothesis, and we must look for some incompatibility of character, as in the case of the hare and the rabbit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quagga" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
