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successive sheddings and at the third all three skins be removed, when the 
reptile’s vision was restored. 
It is a common belief that snakes are so plentiful in India that one can 
scarcely walk about without stepping on them. This is erroneous. It is 
possible to live for considerable periods of time in that country without 
so much as catching a glimpse of a snake. And this is especially true when 
we confine our references to the big pythons. Dr. Hornaday spent two years 
hunting in India and Borneo, and he declares he never saw but one python, 
and that was a small one. The pythons are timid and shy, and lie coiled 
among the foliage of trees or shrubs, or in the dense grass on the. ground. 
They never attack man or the large animals so long as they are unmolested. 
