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... Indian villagers . His area of India , in the foothills of the Himalayas , would have been part of the classical India of Ctesias . However in his account Ctesias has clearly got the porcupine mixed up with the tiger . It was indeed ...
... Indian villagers . His area of India , in the foothills of the Himalayas , would have been part of the classical India of Ctesias . However in his account Ctesias has clearly got the porcupine mixed up with the tiger . It was indeed ...
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... India and later became director of the new National Museum in Dublin . His researches had con- vinced him that many of the critics of Ctesias were ignorant of the real India , and that nearly everything that the Greek author had ...
... India and later became director of the new National Museum in Dublin . His researches had con- vinced him that many of the critics of Ctesias were ignorant of the real India , and that nearly everything that the Greek author had ...
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... India as Described by Megasthenes . Calcutta , 1877 . : Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature . West- minster , 1901 , pp . 3 , 51 . Minns , E. H. Scythians and Greeks . Cambridge , 1913 , pp . 6 , 113 . Pliny : The Natural ...
... India as Described by Megasthenes . Calcutta , 1877 . : Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature . West- minster , 1901 , pp . 3 , 51 . Minns , E. H. Scythians and Greeks . Cambridge , 1913 , pp . 6 , 113 . Pliny : The Natural ...
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Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
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