. Europe and other continents . nd cocoanuts (Fig. 251) for food and oil. In parts of the Ganges Valley and elsewhere there axe jungles,or tracts of waste land densely covered with bamboos, canes,etc., and verydifficult to pene-trate. Fromthese wastes thelion has almostdisappeared; butthe elephant isstill found, andthere are variousspecies of themonkey; also therhinoceros, buffa-lo, leopard, wildboar, wolf, andBengal tiger (). The tigeris much dreaded,for it not onlypreys upon cattle,but even attacks men. Among the Himalayas, goats, sheep,asses, and dogs still exist in a wild state. Cro
. Europe and other continents . nd cocoanuts (Fig. 251) for food and oil. In parts of the Ganges Valley and elsewhere there axe jungles,or tracts of waste land densely covered with bamboos, canes,etc., and verydifficult to pene-trate. Fromthese wastes thelion has almostdisappeared; butthe elephant isstill found, andthere are variousspecies of themonkey; also therhinoceros, buffa-lo, leopard, wildboar, wolf, andBengal tiger (). The tigeris much dreaded,for it not onlypreys upon cattle,but even attacks men. Among the Himalayas, goats, sheep,asses, and dogs still exist in a wild state. Crocodiles live inthe rivers; and venomous serpents are said to kill as many astwenty thousand persons each year. Domestic Animals. — Owing to their religion the Hindus, asthe people of India are called, live mainly upon vegetable many animals, such as the yak, elephant, camel, and buffalo,are raised for a variety of purposes (p. 362). Large numbers ofsheep are kept for their wool, and humped cattle for their milk —2c. Fig. bullock cart in Bombay. 386 ASIA an important article of food — and also as fish are eaten, fishing is an important industry. Mining and Manufacturing. —In addition to the rawproducts of farms and forests there are valuable minerals,including salt, petroleum, coal, and iron. India has longbeen noted for hand-made goods of great beauty ; butwith the exception of these there is little manufactur-ing. Of late, however, there has been a marked develop-ment of cotton manufacturing by machinery. It is even more unnatural that cotton should be shipped allthe way to England for manufacture than that the cotton ofour Southern States should be sent to England and New Eng-land. Therefore, as the South is learning to make cotton goodsnear the cotton fields, so we may expect that the people ofIndia will in time develop an extensive cotton-manufacturingindustry in their own country. Famines and Plagues.— Although these people ar
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