What a Jungle Is.
By tho way, we have now been the whole length of India, from Calcutta to Peshawar, and back to Bombay on the other side of tho land, and except at the foot of the Himalaya Mountains we have not scon one forest, or, indeed, what we should call a wood. Trees there are everywhere along the road, along the hedgerows, scattered about the fields and plains and dotted over tho mountains, but nothing l<ke what the most of us at home have supposed to constitute an East Indian jungle. All uncultivated cr waste lands are called jungle. Out on the jungle means about the same thing hero as out on the plains means with us ; jungle in uninclosed land, whether bare or in heavy grass. The mountain jungles, where the tiger hag his borne, and from whence he comes down to carry off people or dotc/stic animals, hava no trees other tbsn low, scattered bushes 02 rocks, Oa theee no native ever thinks oi going alone at night, or even by day in some of them, for fear cf vrild beasts.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1815, 25 July 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)
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