. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. e among domestic animals, at whom every one thinks he has aright to jibe, granting him in return a fewthistles and food that all other animals woulddisdain. One reason why he is so obstinate,provoking, and phlegmatic in this part of theworld, and consequently so despised, is that hesuffers from our cold, damp climate. He ismore at his ease and therefore less aggravatingand less despised in warm, dry regions. He isindispensable and is therefore valued through-out the south of Europe, northern Africa, Egyptespecially, and Asia M
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. e among domestic animals, at whom every one thinks he has aright to jibe, granting him in return a fewthistles and food that all other animals woulddisdain. One reason why he is so obstinate,provoking, and phlegmatic in this part of theworld, and consequently so despised, is that hesuffers from our cold, damp climate. He ismore at his ease and therefore less aggravatingand less despised in warm, dry regions. He isindispensable and is therefore valued through-out the south of Europe, northern Africa, Egyptespecially, and Asia Minor. In all the countriesclustering round the Mediterranean he showshis good qualities and men make much of China and Persia a fine race of asses israised exclusively for riding. They are riddenby the rich magnates on saddles embossedwith silver ; priests have the dignity and privi-lege of riding white asses. The saddle is putvery far back, nearer to the croup than to thewithers. Bokhara is so rich in donkeys thatthe streets are sometimes blocked by A Trained Zebra They are of all colors, — white, black, brown,tawny, blue-gray, etc. In northern Africa the tamed ass is in gen-eral use as far down as the frontiers of theSoudan. Egypt, especially, has robust, hand-some, well-made animals, with keen eyes and THE ASS AND THE MULE i6i an easy gait, the latter trait making them muchin demand for riding, particularly for are also very suitable for pilgrimagesthrough the desert, such as the Mohammedanpilgrims make to Mecca. The handsomest ani-mals are found chiefly in Upper Egypt and inNubia, where they cost more than horses. Formerly there were such hordes of wildasses in the Cape Verde and Canary Islandsthat they had to be exterminated by South America they are equally numerous,especially in Patagonia. Sardinia has an im-mense number of very small donkeys, employedchiefly in grinding corn and in drawing asses mill, viola asinana, was i
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