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Identifier: indikacountrypeo00hursuoft (find matches)
Title: Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903
Subjects: Sri Lanka India
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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in purpleand gold, is still considered a necessary factor in a vice-regal orprincely procession. The lion, long the king of the Indian forest, is now rapidly dis-appearing. The south is still the home of the tiger. This ani-mal is getting more timid of late, because of the inroads madeupon his species by English sportsmen and because of theprogress of agriculture; but the species known as the man-eater is still dreaded, because of his terrible ferocity Huntergives the following account of the depredations of four of theseanimals : In three years one man-eater killed 108 people; anotherdestroyed 80 people in one year; another was the dreaded pestof 30 villages; while a fourth, in 1869, killed 127 people, and formany weeks closed up a great road to all travel. Chamois, chevreuils, bears, wild dogs, wolves, and other ani-mals of this class, are to be found in the north, and to someextent in all parts of India. The panther, hyena, jackal, croco- * Le Bon, Civilization of India, pp. 57-68.
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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Sri_Lanka
  • booksubject:India
  • bookpublisher:New_York__Harper
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  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:119
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