Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men (1897) (14597183957)

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Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University



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ecies, one of which is quite small and ern peninsula the elephant has beennearly exterminated, but a few are stillfound in the forests of Coorg and My-sore, and in the states of Orissa. It wasout of India that the elephants weredrawn in the classical ages and trainedfor the shock of battle. From this sourceHannibal drew his supply when Rometrembled under the march of his armies.. THE INDICANS.—ANIMAL LIFE. 693 Four varieties of rhinoceros are foundin India. Two of the species are uni-corns, and two have double horns.They most abound in the The principal pachyderms valley of the Brahmaputra and ruminants. ^ ^ the Sundarbans< Its habitat is mostly in swampy places,and its manner of life like that of swine, on the slopes of the Himalayas, wheresome of them range as high as twelvethousand feet above the level of the sea.Here also is found the ibex, even on thehighest ranges of the mountains; alsothe chamois, in the Himalayas, fromAssam to Burmah. It would be vain to enumerate the an-
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RHINOCEROS FIGHT AT BARODA.—Drawn by Emile Bayard. or even the hippopotamus. From theearliest times the wild hog has aboundedin the Indian jungles. Its habit is tohover along the edges of settlementsand to gratify its predatory habits byplunging into fields and villages. Inthe deserts of Sindh and Kachheh thewild ass still exists, as in the times ofthe Aryan migration. Many varietiesof wild sheep and wild goats are found telope and the deer, with its many spe-cies, the bison, from the Habitsandsizep-aur of the Western Ghats of the Indian ,. , t1 buffalo. to the gayal of the north-eastern frontier. In the latter regionthe bison has been domesticated, and isused by the aboriginal tribes in theirsacrifices. In Burmah the buffalo isfound, large and fierce. The heads ofsome bulls captured in modern times- 694 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. have been as much as thirteen feet sixinches in circumference and fully sixfeet and a half between the tips of thehorns. The animal reaches a height ofsix fe