On the Health of Settlers in the Darjeeling Terai

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  • T. Mathew
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and the plain, the traveller was warned to traverse it at speed, and to beware of loitering even a single night within its limits, at the peril of a deadly jungle fever. Referring specially to that length of the Terai which fringes the Darjeeling hills, I have 110 difficulty in understanding how it came by its bad name. The vegetation, which covers the hill-sides, runs uninterruptedly into the comparatively level ground below, and there expands into a dense tract of forest

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دوره 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016