SNAKES AND WILD BEASTS IN INDIA.
A WBiTEB in the current number of the " Revue Scientiflque " has collected a mass of interesting figures relating to the above. Ho says that as many os 20,000 deaths occur annually in India from snake bites, and that since 1870 from 150,000 to 200,000 persons have perished in this way. India posiesees more deadly snakes than any other country, and the bite of the cobra is often fatal within half-amhour. In the year 1880, 212,776 serpents of all kinds wore destroyed, and the rewards, amounting in all to 11,663 rupees, wore paid to their destroyers. In the northwest provinces i.nd in Oude a body of Kaujars has been formed for the especial purpose of killing off the venomous reptiles of those districts. The men receive two rupees per month, and if a man is so fortunate as to destroy more that twenty snakes during that period he is paid the equivalent of about three-pence per head for all in excess of that number. In 1881 wild beasts caused the death of 2,757 persons, as against 2.810 in 1880, and the number of animals killed by them every year is enormous.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1367, 11 October 1883, Page 1
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196SNAKES AND WILD BEASTS IN INDIA. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1367, 11 October 1883, Page 1
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