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 .. . great phalanx of an-imal life, fierce and malign, that the In-dian races have flung themselves forthousands of years. It has been a warat once offensive and defensive, and thebattle has not infrequently gone against THE INDICANS.—ANIMAL LIFE. 695 the man. In no other quarter of thehabitable globe does the wild animallife peculiar to the primeval world standforth against the human race, even tothe present day, in s
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 .. . great phalanx of an-imal life, fierce and malign, that the In-dian races have flung themselves forthousands of years. It has been a warat once offensive and defensive, and thebattle has not infrequently gone against THE INDICANS.—ANIMAL LIFE. 695 the man. In no other quarter of thehabitable globe does the wild animallife peculiar to the primeval world standforth against the human race, even tothe present day, in such fierce and de-fiant antagonism as in this thickly popu-lated India. It is a strange reflection that afterfully four thousand years of conflict,during which the great peninsula reach- a stronger arm and better prospect ofvictory than docs his timid, light-limbed,brown-bronze descendant. In course of time, no doubt, everyspecies of savage creature will be exter-minated from the World. Civilization ex- The multiplication and ex- termina*es an * savage forms of pansion of the human fam- iife- ily will carry the abodes of man into the reclaimed fenlands, to the river brink,. DEADLY SERPENTS OF INDIA—The Bunjaris Fasciatus.—Drawn by R. Kretschner. ing into the Indian ocean and embracedby the Indus and the Ganges has neverwanted for multitudes of inhabitants, theThe Indian man has not on the whole held his own against thebeast. It is likely that theprimitive Aryan adventurer who pene-trated the jungles while the earliest poetof the Vedas was still chanting his hymnsin Sindh and the Punjab, met the fiercecreatures of the woods and marshes with races have notsubdued the?wild beasts. through the wild morass and woodland,and up the mountain slopes beyond theline of snow. The spread of civilization,as exemplified in the cultivation of thesoil, in the improved means of defense,in the scientific mastery over every ele-ment in the environment, will demandand accomplish the extinctio
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