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 Before Image: 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 foundin India. Two of the species are uni-corns, and two have double horns.They most abound in the The principal pachyderms valley of the Brahmaputra and ruminants. j ■ ,, o j i and m the bundarbans.Its habitat is mostly in swampy places,and its manner of life like that of swine, on the slopes of the Himalayas, wheresome of them range as high as twelvethousand feet above the level of the sea.Here also is found the ibex, even on thehighest ranges of the mountains; alsothe chamois, in the Himalayas, fromAssam to Burmah. It would be vain to enumerate the an-

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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