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[edit]DescriptionRHINOCEROS FIGHT AT BARODA from page 299 of "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" (1895) (14596672017).jpg |
Identifier: cyclopediauniver1950ridp Title: 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 Year: 1895 (1890s) Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900 Subjects: World history Ethnology World history Publisher: Boston : Balch Bros. Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries
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Text Appearing After Image: RHINOCEROS FIGHT AT BARODA.—Drawn by Emile Bayard. or even the hippopotamus. From theearliest times the wild hog has aboundedin the Indian jungles. Its habit is tohover along the edges of settlementsand to gratify its predatory habits byplunging into fields and villages. Inthe deserts of Sindh and Ivachheh thewild ass still exists, as in the times ofthe Aryan migration. Many varietiesof wild sheep and wild goats are found telope and the deer, with its many spe-cies, the bison, from the 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
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