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is a pity that, in dealing with such destructive animals, sportsmen 
do not see the necessity of using poisoned bullets. In like man- 
ner cobras might be routed from the vicinity of houses by the 
application of carbolic amd. 
Rabies among jackals is noted as of common occurrence, 
Col. Fraser having shot one in this state which had entered his 
bungalow, and concealed itself under a chest of drawers. Pariah 
dogs also suffer from this malady, and communicate it to men. 
These faCts are of some importance, since our English dog- 
worshippers maintain that rabies would disappear if dogs were 
not chained up and muzzled. The utter vanity of this conten- 
tion is proved by the frequency of the disease among wild 
Canidas. 
Mention is made of. the sudden and unaccountable appearance 
of cholera. Thus on a Sunday morning, in 1846, at Karachi, 
“ all were well and healthy. A small lurid cloud was observed 
over the Biluch hills, the surgeon was called out from church, 
and by twelve that night a hundred cholera patients were in 
hospital : it lasted a week, and entombed seven hundred Eu- 
ropeans. 
Another epidemic took place at Kolapur. A body of five 
thousand soldiers were encamped in the vicinity of the town, on 
a rising ground with a hard gravelly soil. On its flank was the 
escort of the Commissioner to which the author was attached, 
merely divided from the main body by a small rocky ravine, and 
having a large tank in its front. The first evening cholera broke 
out in the main camp, and on the third day the troops shifted 
ground after losing one hundred and fifty men daily. Meantime 
not a single case occurred either among the escort or in the 
town. If any contagion was being conveyed in the air, why 
were its effects so limited ? Whether we suppose the materies 
morbi gaseous, or consisting of “ figured ” germs or spores, 
would seem to make little difference. 
One more passage necessitates our attention. The author, 
“ often and bitterly,” had to lament his want of even rudimentary 
instruction in chemistry, geology, and botany.” We have altered 
this matter : we do not “ instruct ” our officers and civil servants 
in the natural sciences, but we examine them therein, and thus 
delude both them and ourselves. 
Every reader will, we think, like ourselves, lament that this 
book is not longer. Col. Fraser could doubtless have told us 
much more that would have been well worth reading. 
