This occurred to me when I saw Mea among the branches, and afterwards when I stalked the zebra I was continually thinking of it."
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
And pointing at the slain zebra, he added: "Better than that niama."
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Stripings are found not unfrequently to occur in the legs and withers, which Darwin took for a reversion to the character of a very remote ancestor, the common parent, in fact, of horses and asses, which he supposed to have been striped all over like a zebra.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard