RICE AND HUMAN ENDURANCE.
The Indians of the Western plains, who lived almost entirely on flesh, were fierce and warlike; the Eskimos, who also live entirely on flesh, are among the mildest and most peaceable of men. The unfortunate Armenians, on the contrary, are periodically massacred by a race of bloodthirsty vegetarians. The Hindus of Bengal arc the traditional horrible example of the effects of living on rice. But the Chinese and Japanese, who also live on rice—in sufficient quantity —are about the toughest and most enduring of mankind- During the race of the allied armies to Pekin the Japanese army, on a diet ot nee and dried fish, outmarched the Europeans by fifty per cent. Even in India, the Sikhs and the Rajputs, who eat but twice a day and rarely touch meat, are among the finest
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 523, 4 December 1912, Page 2
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138RICE AND HUMAN ENDURANCE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 523, 4 December 1912, Page 2
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