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 . e Habits and size gaur of the Western Ghats of the Indianto 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 OF MANKIND. have been as much as thirteen feet sixinches in circumference and fully sixfeet and a half betwee
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 . e Habits and size gaur of the Western Ghats of the Indianto 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 OF 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 feet, and compares favorably in mag-nitude with the tremendous creaturesformerly inhabiting the great Americanplains of the West. Of birds, there are an endless variety. generally innocuous. The inhabitant ofthe safe countries of Europe has littleapprehension of the deadly work of thoseIndian serpents, of which the cobra decapello is the imperial and venomousking. The fatality from snake-biting iseverywhere increased by the supersti-tion of the people, who generally re-oard the snake with veneration. The. ^!5iti>l %
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