Abstract
According to the government statistics no less than 24,621 persons died as the result of snake-bites in India in the last year covered by the reports. To balance this 94,548 snakes were killed by human agency. This is a remarkable showing and can hardly be explained except by the heathen Hindoo's reverence for animal life even in its most objectionable forms. A snake is one of the easiest of all animals to kill, a venomous one no more difficult than any other. In this country hundreds of thousands are annually slain at the least estimate and no bounty given, and poisonous varieties are practically exterminated in most thickly settled districts. With all allowance for special difficulties that may exist, the less than one hundred thousand snakes killed in India is a most extraordinary fact. India is the paradise of vegetarians and antivivisectionists, but it is a paradise with altogether too
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