Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . the jackal,whose hideous yell by night may beheard in most of the country districts ofIndia. The latter animal is sought bythe European huntsmen who are settledhere and there in the country, for whomthe jackal takes the place of the fox inthe hunt of the Western nations. 692 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. Dogs, -wild and tame, are numerous. Tlie Canis dliola is an inhabitant of the wildest iunsfles. These, The Canis dhola, . , . the sl


Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . the jackal,whose hideous yell by night may beheard in most of the country districts ofIndia. The latter animal is sought bythe European huntsmen who are settledhere and there in the country, for whomthe jackal takes the place of the fox inthe hunt of the Western nations. 692 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. Dogs, -wild and tame, are numerous. Tlie Canis dliola is an inhabitant of the wildest iunsfles. These, The Canis dhola, . , . the sloth and indeed, are his native lair, the sun bear. -, , , r ^i and have been so trom theprehistoric ages. Of bears, there aremany varieties throughout all black, or sloth, bear is found in theforests and on the mountains. This is the other almost as large as the grizzlyof the Sierras. The elephant is native to all parts ofthe country except the Northwest prov-inces. His native abode is , , , The elephant the hill-country rather than immemorial inthe plains. He does notmuch descend into the river valleys, buttakes to the higher ridges. In the south-. ANIMAL LIFE OF INDIA.—Stag Slain bv a the creature so strangely marked with awhite horseshoe on his breast. TheThibetan sun bear is found along themountain spurs, all the way from thePunjab to Assam, but never at a lowerlevel than five thousand feet above thesea. The Malayan sun bear inhabitsBritish Burmah, along with two otherspecies, one of which is quite small and Tiger.—Drawn by A. de Neuville, after Delaporte. 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 fo


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