After that he concluded to remain content with his quagga team.
There were two kinds of zebra, a quagga, and a buffalo, both huge and dangerous.
Even the quagga is so banded upon the head and upper parts of its body.
But, to his astonishment, he found that his quagga did not share his intention.
He must fling himself to the ground, and let quagga and saddle go.
In vain the quagga tried to get out by the most desperate efforts.
No; the big, solid-hoofed antelope that eats like nylghau or quagga.
Hendrik's eye was upon him; and in a moment the quagga was turned upon his track.
Was he jealous about his quagga's speed, and determined it should beat all the others?
“Yes, sir,” said quagga; and Pipkin received the brutal command.
zebra-like South African animal, 1785, from Afrikaans (1710), from the name for the beast in a native language, perhaps Hottentot quacha, probably of imitative origin. In modern Xhosa, the form is iqwara, with a clicking -q-. What was likely the last one died in an Amsterdam zoo in 1883.