V, 



TOLL OP THE JUNGLE 



IN HUMAN LIVES 



JfParly 25,000 Persons in Jiidia Killed 

 in a Year lij Wild Animals and Pol- 

 sonons Snakes. / 9 / 



India sdll pa^s annual tribute ot 

 human Ufa to the Jungle. In (act, thft 

 number of deaths from snalteWte or th« 

 attacks of wild animals has steadily in- 

 rt t ased during the last three years. 

 Tlie rising waters have driven the 8*r- 

 t nts out of the lowlands up into the vil- 

 ^f'S and have diminished through drown- 

 the natural food supply o£ the larger 

 iiii beasts. 



!ii 1910 65 persons Were killed by eie- 

 1 tuuits, 25 by hyenas, 109 by bears, 351 by 

 leopard.s, .^IS by wolves, So3 by tigers and 

 688 by other animals, including wild pigs. 



No less than 32,478 dle<l from the bit* ot 

 poisonous snakes. The grand total of mor- 

 tality is 24,S78. 



ime year 93,000 cattle wera 

 'ild beasts and snakes, 

 the part of inhabitants of 

 — e nearly but not rpiite aa 

 those of their human enemies ami 

 l;niii .«tt.-ar.Mi anitnala combined. Nlnety- 

 r i'Undred and four srtakes 



«"i Wild beasts of various 



'i'l" '.1.1" ; I,,:. I reports that a great 

 niaaij cases ol snake bites were success- 

 fully treated with the Brunton lancet and 

 permanganate of potash, but tliat it is, 

 nevertheless, impossible to assert the value 

 of this treatment, since no one knows 

 whether all— or even a very large number 

 —of the cases treated were caused by the 

 bites of reall.v venomous snakes. 



The White River 

 Tavern 



WILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS 



Saturday, 



June 1st, 



1912, 



—under tjie management of — 

 MR. JAIVIES J. CLARY, 

 of Hotel Bellevue, Boston. 



During the : 

 also killed by 



The losses o 

 til.- jungle 



Transients, automobile parties, and 

 summer guests will be welcomed and 

 well cared for. Bus service from tiie 

 Junction. Address 



White River Tavern, Hartford, Vt. 



A Bbitish Blue Book has been issued giving 

 statistics of the number of persons killed by 

 wild animals and snakes in British India from 

 1880 to 1910. According to the summary in 

 the Briiish Medical Journal the figures show 

 that the tiger is the animaL mo.9t destructive 

 to human life; during the last five years of 

 tho period it was responsible for 38 per cent, 

 of the total number of deaths caused by wild 

 animals, leopards accounting for 16, wolves 

 for 12 and bears for 4 per cent. Of the total 

 number of persons (2,,382) killed by wild ani- 

 mals in the year 1910, the tiger accounted for 

 882, the leopard for 366 and wolves and bears 

 for 428. Elephants and hyenas, the two other 

 animals distinguished in the returns, were be- 

 tween them responsible for 11 deaths in 1910. 

 Of the 629 deaths attributed to "other ani- 

 mals," 244 are assigned to alligators and 

 crocodiles, 61 to wild pigs, 16 to buffaloes, 24 

 to wild dogs and 220 to unspecified aniniuls. 

 In 1910 there were 22,478 deaths from snake- 

 bite, compared with 21,364 in the previous ^ 

 year, but Bombay was one of the provinces* 

 which did not contribute towards the increase.ji 

 and is in other respects one of the more for-V' 

 tun ate parts of India. In Bengal, for ex-^'" 



Juke 20, 1913] 



aciE 



; ample, 1,130 persons were killed in 1910 by 

 I wild animals and 7,767 by snakes; but Bom- 

 j bay is, with the exception of the Punjab, at 

 I the bottom of the list with 22 deaths by wUd 

 ; animals and 1,247 by snakes. The statistics 

 regarding the number of cattle killed by wild 

 animals are not very perfect, but it is esti- 

 I mated that in the five years ending 1910 the 

 number of animals killed was about 100,000 

 ' leopards accounting for 48 per cent, and tigers' 

 I for 32 per cent. 



J^rt> Tl» Ode. 



Tn the class orle, WIIHam Rogar Bur- 

 lint'amB showed a contrast bi?tween the 

 ■ Icnorant pride" with which 1913 entered 

 tlio collepe pates and the tempered mlnda 

 V 1th which it leaves. 



I'hB two atanxas, which were sung to tlio 



in.? "Fair Harvard," are:— 



' .- liav.1 entered thy gates at the moi-nlne of 

 youth 



In the boliliuss of ignorant pride, 

 We have, pasaeil throiifc-h th* portals of Inflnl'.e 

 truth. 



Led by thee, our protedtor and guide. 

 We leave thee thin night for the sliila of the 

 eaiHh 



Anrl the out.?rnii)»t jiarl? of the sea, 

 Where the tame of our deafla ahd the pralee of 



.>ur 1 



»rth 



Shall bclon.B not to 113 but 10 thee. 



In the dusk of the twillstht the threshoM of night 

 On the eve of tomorrow's unknown, 



Irft Uf llnge/ ««hi|." In the silll-bUri>lnB light 

 or a mar tlint is shining alone. 



VnW- gulilt? m i.ur hearts In the dawn -ir ouvday, 

 Qulci hope ill each sitasnn nf r«iln, 



Through the riarkne.Hs of age. be IhH light of Dul- 



r jMother ogain. 



