. Europe and other continents . Fig. banyan, or Indian fig tree, from whoselower branches shoots descend and take root— common in Ceylon and other parts ofsouthern Asia. 362 ASIA Herodotus (about 484-420 ) the people of India grew cot-ton and wove it into cloth; and they kept sheep, horses, cattle,and goats. Tea and oranges were introduced into Europe fromChina, and the lemon tree came from India. The extent to which the Asiatic people have employed ani-mals in their service is indicated by the following facts. Onthe frozen tundras, where none of the other large domesticatedanimals
. Europe and other continents . Fig. banyan, or Indian fig tree, from whoselower branches shoots descend and take root— common in Ceylon and other parts ofsouthern Asia. 362 ASIA Herodotus (about 484-420 ) the people of India grew cot-ton and wove it into cloth; and they kept sheep, horses, cattle,and goats. Tea and oranges were introduced into Europe fromChina, and the lemon tree came from India. The extent to which the Asiatic people have employed ani-mals in their service is indicated by the following facts. Onthe frozen tundras, where none of the other large domesticatedanimals thrive, the reindeer (Fig. 48) not only supplies milk,meat, and hides, but is also used as a work animal. The camel,whose original home seems to have been Asia, makes humanhabitation possible in the desert (Figs. 248, 265, and 283).. Fig. humped cattle used as draught-animals in Burma. Elephants are domesticated and made to work in the densetropical forest (Figs. 251 and 277) ; and the buffalo is used asa work animal in hot, damp lands where horses find the climatetrying (Figs. 250 and 274). Among the lofty plateaus andmountains, where the air is so rarefied and the slopes so steepthat other work animals cannot be used, the yak is domesti-cated. Upon the steppes, where herds of cattle, sheep, andgoats are kept, the horse is so necessary to the herder that themen almost live in the saddle. Indeed, the word Cossack, appliedto Russians who dwell on the steppes, means horseman. PEOPLE 363
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