The Forests of Upper India and Their InhabitantsE. Arnold, 1902 - 344 pàgines |
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Pàgina xi
... season the growth is so luxuriant , and the jungles so impenetrable and unhealthy , that the wild animals have immunity from the persecution of their great enemy , the Saxon man . The natives as a rule do not take animal life ; and the ...
... season the growth is so luxuriant , and the jungles so impenetrable and unhealthy , that the wild animals have immunity from the persecution of their great enemy , the Saxon man . The natives as a rule do not take animal life ; and the ...
Pàgina xii
... seasons of intense heat on the plains and of intense cold on the highest hills in the world , without taking fever , and to be always ready for a long march on foot , horse , or elephant , and for a good venison steak at the end of it ...
... seasons of intense heat on the plains and of intense cold on the highest hills in the world , without taking fever , and to be always ready for a long march on foot , horse , or elephant , and for a good venison steak at the end of it ...
Pàgina 5
... season by Terai fever , and cannot com- pare with the Rohilkhand kahar , who can do his sixty miles at a trot and eat only once a day . Soon it is time to be stirring , as to - night we shall sleep 7,000 feet above the sea , in the ...
... season by Terai fever , and cannot com- pare with the Rohilkhand kahar , who can do his sixty miles at a trot and eat only once a day . Soon it is time to be stirring , as to - night we shall sleep 7,000 feet above the sea , in the ...
Pàgina 6
... season the water which flows from the hills is all underground in the Bhabar , filtering through the shingle which has been swept down from the hills during the rains ; when the rivers are foaming torrents , trending all away to the ...
... season the water which flows from the hills is all underground in the Bhabar , filtering through the shingle which has been swept down from the hills during the rains ; when the rivers are foaming torrents , trending all away to the ...
Pàgina 11
... of a comfortable bungalow at Naini Tal . The natives will not work at this season , and migrate to their villages in the upper ее hills before the rains commence . Though not comparable to FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE HIMALAYAN FOREST II.
... of a comfortable bungalow at Naini Tal . The natives will not work at this season , and migrate to their villages in the upper ее hills before the rains commence . Though not comparable to FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE HIMALAYAN FOREST II.
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