Natural History Sport And Travel
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" Snakes were brought to my office in thou- sands. The municipality gave a reward of four annas, or sixpence each, for venomous snakes, and a penny for harmless kinds. In order that I might secure anything rare, I had them all passed in review before me, and as the natives declare that almost every snake is veno- mous, I was able to prevent the municipality paying too much. Out of some six thousand specimens which I saw however, at least four thousand were cobras, or the equally deadly Karait (...Bungarus cceruleus), the rest were all harmless, with the exception of a single speci- men of the Banded Bungarus, and two specimens of Russell's viper.
As the municipal limits only extended over 7 * 100 THE MILK SNAKE.
two square miles, anyone conversant with arithmetic may calculate the number of snakes to the acre which Monghyr contained, and the chances whether you had a cobra residing under your bed, or chair as you sat at dinner.
Considering the vast number of snakes, the wonder is that any person escapes being bitten, and when we know that their bite is certain death, and that in Bengal alone a vast army of men, women, and children, are yearly bitten and die, it is difficult to answer satisfactorily a ques- tion once put to me by a Mahomedan lawyer : " For what good purpose were cobras created ?" Fortunately during the cold season, when Eu- ropeans move about the country in camp, snakes appear to hybernate, at all events they are seldom seen; and Dr.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" Snakes were brought to my office in thou- sands. The municipality gave a reward of four annas, or sixpence each, for venomous snakes, and a penny for harmless kinds. In order that I might secure anything rare, I had them all passed in review before me, and as the natives declare that almost every snake is veno- mous, I was able to prevent the municipality paying too much. Out of some six thousand specimens which I saw however, at least four thousand were cobras, or the equally deadly Karait (...Bungarus cceruleus), the rest were all harmless, with the exception of a single speci- men of the Banded Bungarus, and two specimens of Russell's viper.
As the municipal limits only extended over 7 * 100 THE MILK SNAKE.
two square miles, anyone conversant with arithmetic may calculate the number of snakes to the acre which Monghyr contained, and the chances whether you had a cobra residing under your bed, or chair as you sat at dinner.
Considering the vast number of snakes, the wonder is that any person escapes being bitten, and when we know that their bite is certain death, and that in Bengal alone a vast army of men, women, and children, are yearly bitten and die, it is difficult to answer satisfactorily a ques- tion once put to me by a Mahomedan lawyer : " For what good purpose were cobras created ?" Fortunately during the cold season, when Eu- ropeans move about the country in camp, snakes appear to hybernate, at all events they are seldom seen; and Dr.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Edward Dowdeswell Lockwood to read onlineMoreLess
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