One elephant was killed, and we remained to take the ivory from the dead beast; buffaloes and zebraswere also killed.
The zebrasare exclusively African, and include two types, a southern and a northern.
In former times, Zebras were often sent as presents to the oriental princes.
It is usual with the African ambassadors to the court of Constantinople to bring Zebras with them as presents for the Grand Seignior.
They could sniff the danger from afar if the zebras could not; they swung their heads as if they were gigantic hammers, stamped with rage, and bounded off ere ever a trigger could be drawn.
Oppian, Dion, and an anonymous Greek, that zebras had been seen at Rome.
Twenty zebras displayed their elegant forms and variegated beauty to the eyes of the Roman people.
The zebras and wild asses were also forward, but mostly out of sight behind the house.
We knew the wolf and the hyena would run from a man with a handspike, and the zebras and asses would run from a man without one.
In places, where the grasses had not yet shot up too high, could be perceived even with the naked eye whole herds of antelopes and zebras or groups of elephants and buffaloes.
Stas, notwithstanding that the heat was very oppressive, slipped out of the palanquin and sat on the elephant's neck to see whether there were any herds of antelopes or zebras within view, for he wished to replenish his supply of meat.
Stas gently stroked her head, after which he took the rifle, closed the cartridge box, and started in the direction in which the zebras were pastured.
Pa Breaks in the Zebras and Drives a Six-in-Hand Team in the Parade--The Freaks Have a Narrow Escape from Drowning.
The zebras rolled in the mud and spoiled their stripes, so people couldn't tell them from common mules; the grizzly bear walked his cage, and kept giving vent to bear language, and the big lion was howling all the time.
We started back to town, the cowboys and Indians driving the animals, and the zebras and giraffes kicking up and acting as though they had got out of school on account of the death of a dear teacher, like schoolboys.
There was little cover, and I had a very hard time to get within range, especially as a dozen zebras kept grazing across the line of my stalks.
We slipped over to the other side, and by good fortune caught sight of a dozenzebras feeding in scrub half-way down the hill.
For twenty minutes all parties to the transaction remained stock still, the zebras staring, we hoping fervently they would decide to go down the valley and not up it, the roan dozing under his distant tree.
Fifteen or twenty zebras nooning in the brush where no zebras were supposed to be, clattered down the hill like an avalanche.
It is of course perfectly conceivable that they may have differed among themselves as much as do the existing Zebras and Asses, the separation of which would be hardly possible did we know their bones only.
The existing Equidae all belong to the genus Equus, though there are some who would (quite unnecessarily) divide off the Zebras as a genus Hippotigris.
The Asses and Zebras differ from the Horse in the characters mentioned under the description of Equus caballus.
As already mentioned, the Horse differs from the Asses and Zebras in the fact that the hind-limbs have callosities on the inner side.
Here they saw grass fires at a distance of about twelve miles, but the presence of numerous zebras indicated that there was water still nearer.
One of these herds was preceded by about fifty zebras and another by a large herd of sable antelopes.
I answered, 'Yes,' but I knew very well that zebras would not be capering around the carcase of a rhinoceros.
Kleinboy remarked to me that a troop of zebras were standing on the height.
On reaching the water I looked toward the carcase of the rhinoceros, and, to my astonishment, I beheld the ground alive with large creatures, as though a troop of zebras were approaching the fountain to drink.
Again and again, as an offering of peace and good-will, I have shot zebras for natives who greedily longed for its flesh.
They are far more widely separated than horses, asses, and zebras are from one another.
Seven animals were killed, three zebras and four quaggas; and as Swinton had requested that they might not be cut up till he had ascertained if he required their skins, Omrah was sent back to bring him to where they were lying.
The lion allowed the herd of zebras to go away, and turned his attention to the Bushman.
During the day but little game had been seen,--a few zebras and ostriches only; all other varieties had disappeared.
Gnus andzebras contemplate the strange intruder with an air of surprise.
Indeed, in some districts of Southern Africa, a coach drawn by a team of zebras instead of horses is not a very uncommon sight.
Zebras are generally found in herds, and they have a curious habit of traveling about in company with a number of brindled gnus and ostriches, which all seem to be as friendly as possible together.
To-day Burchell's zebras are invariably called qua-has by both Boers and British colonists.
A company of zebras have gathered by a marshy pool to drink, while a huge two-horned rhinoceros, his great nose resting on a fallen tree, looks wonderingly at these uninvited guests to his particular swamp.
The zebrascome close enough for their stripes to be admired with the naked eye.
Some zebras and kongoni have been killed and left lying in likely-looking places to attract the lions; and at 4 a.
There are neither tse-tse flies nor buffaloes along the Botletlie river to-day, though several species of antelopes as well as zebras were a few years ago, and are probably still, existent there.
The gemsbucks were now going at their utmost speed, and when I had passed the zebras were still sixty or seventy yards in front of me.
Just before him were "ten zebrasswitching their beautiful striped bodies, and biting one another.
On getting our wind the royal beasts make off at once; but the zebras remain till the foremost man is within eighty yards of them, when old and young canter gracefully away.
Herds of the new antelopes, lechwe, and poku, with the kokong, or gnus, and zebras stood gazing at us as we passed.
Illustration: Zebras are ill and spitting] No one was allowed even to visit the menagerie.
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