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TWO YEARS IN THE JUNGLE. 



the species destructive to human life it only serves to prevent their increase 

 beyond a certain point. 



Here is a field for the missionaries with a vengeance. I wonder if it has 

 never occurred to them that it would be a good thing to save bodies as well as 

 souls, especially where twenty thousand of the former are destroyed every year 

 by wild beasts and snakes. To my mind, the body of the Hindoo seems 

 more deserving of attention just now than his soul. 



Loss OF Life and Propekty by Wild Beasts in British India dur- 



iNG the Year 1878. 



Dangerous Animals Destroyed in British India during the Yeab 



1878. 



