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Updated: May 23, 2025
For myself, I venture confidently to look back thousands on thousands of generations, and I see an animal striped like a zebra, but perhaps otherwise very differently constructed, the common parent of our domestic horse, whether or not it be descended from one or more wild stocks, of the ass, the hemionus, quagga, and zebra.
Without saying a word, both leaped out of the pits, and hastened towards the fallen animals, with a strong presentiment that there was something amiss. The animal brought down by Hendrik was first reached. It was not a quagga, but a horse! "A horse!" exclaimed Willem as he stooped over the carcass to examine it. "It is not mine, thank God, nor yours neither."
The heavy-going eland was soon overtaken, and as it trotted to one side, was passed. It halted, but the quaggas kept on. 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. What was Hendrik about?
We've a couple of peacocks here, and Totty will get one of them ready sooner than the aard-vark." "As for that," rejoined Hans, "I don't care which. I'm just in the condition to eat anything even a steak of tough old quagga, if I had it; but I think it would be no harm if Swartboy that is, if you're not too tired, old Swart would just peel the skin off this gentleman."
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. No matter for all that; his life was in danger if he kept on. The quaggas might gallop twenty, ay, fifty miles before halting. They showed no symptoms of being blown no signs of giving out.
It's only by personal experience that one finds out these things." It was swiftly borne in upon Rollo that his earlier selection of the dog-whip had been a really sound one. The conclave gave his under- lip time to steady itself while it debated the choice of the necessary word. "Mustang" was no good, as half the girls wouldn't know what it meant; finally "quagga" was pitched on.
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. We ourselves, however, preferred the more delicate meat of the springbok. We kept some of the meat for our next day's breakfast, and offered the remainder to our guests, which they quickly stowed away.
No wonder they showed their heels in the best style they knew how; and so well did they show them, that Hendrik's quagga notwithstanding his keen desire to get forward among them, and explain away the awkward business upon his back was not able to come an inch closer. He did not lose ground, however.
"I heard your sister Helen say she should so much like to have a young quagga to try and tame it," exclaimed Crawford, riding up to the little animal, which seemed in no way alarmed at the appearance of the horse, but apparently mistaking it for its parent, trotted alongside.
Swartboy, who had been upon the cliffs, brought this report to camp. Without losing any more time than sufficed to get the direction from Swartboy, Hendrik mounted his quagga, shouldered his rifle, and rode off in search of the herd. Not far from the camp there was an easy pass, leading up the cliff to the plain above.
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