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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: ... jungle pigeon, plover, quail, heron, fforican, adjutant, paddy bird, parrot, woodpecker, kingfisher, etc. Among the fish, the principal varieties are the following: --Rui, chitdl, ganiyd, puntd, sdl, gdjor, singi, chingri, koi, pabeld, ritd, pangd, hihd, kdtld, kalisd, etc. During the ten years ending 1869, 11o people were returned as having been killed by wild beasts or snakes, showing an average of 11 each year; but much value cannot be placed on these figures. During the same period the total sum of 51, 13s., or an average of about 5 a year, was paid in the form of rewards for tiger killing. No rewards have ever been given for the destruction of snakes. In 1874, after the introduction of the new scale of rewards, the expenditure for killing wild animals rose to 29, 16s., as compared with an average of 2, 10s. during the three preceding years. In 1874 five persons, and in 1875 seven persons, were reported as having died either by wild beasts or from snake bite. Population--Early Estimates.--At the time of conducting the Revenue Survey an attempt was made to enumerate the houses in the settled portion of the District, which were returned at 18,432, showing a population (taking five as the average number of inmates for each house) of 92,160. Besides these there are about 30,000 labourers employed in the tea gardens; and Mr. Edgar, the DeputyCommissioner in 1870, estimated the number of hillmen within the District at 30,000, viz. 10,000 Kuk(s, 8000 Nagds, 1000 Mfldrs, 10,000 Cdchdns, and 1000 Khdsids and Assamese. According to these estimates, the total population would be 152,000 souls. Major Stewart, however, estimated the population at 220,000, of whom 50,000 were Hindu Bengalis, 25,000 Hindu Manipuris, 80,000 Musalman Bengalis, 5000 Musalman Manip...
