, Flesh or fish of any kind is, however, but little eaten by any race or caste in India, owing to their inability to buy it. Even Mahomedans, who :nay eat all but the pig., only use these in small quantities as a relish with their mainly vegetable diet. Rajput and the hunter and wild , races are keen sportsmen, and eat what they can kill in the chase, even the flesh of the wild pig; and all sects and all classes of. Hindus and Mahornetlans make use of milk, curds, and gbi. Scrupulous Hindus will not eat fowls or their eggs. The animal food of which the greatest number would partake is fish, but, as already explained (Fisher:nen, p. 1125), from this the salt monopoly debars them, though the seas and rivers teem with this form of animal life. From the climato and the gelatinous character of tho fish, to be cheaply supplied they need t,o bo quickly eured, and fishermen to effect this take brine with them in their trips. The consumption of fish is merely limited by the cost of the supply. 'In Canara, too, neither sheep nor oxen are reared, and fish alone are available. The Famine Report scarcely alludes to the available fish supply. But, in para. 69 of their Report, the Famine Commis sioners show that the seasons of drought in India have always been followed by scarcity or famine : 1 1769. Drought in Bengal.
1770. Famine in Bengal.
1782. Drought in Bombay and Madras.
1783. Drought in Upper India.
1783. Famine in Madras ; scarcity in Bombay. 1784. Famine in Upper India, from the Karasunassa to tho Sutlej.
1791. Drought in Bombay, Hyderabad, and Madras.
un. ,,karcity in north part of Madras ; intense famine in Hyderabad and Southern Mahratta country ; severe famine in Dekhau, Cujerat, and Marini..
1802. Drought in South Hyderabad and in Dalian. 1803. Drought in Ceded Province of N.W. Provinces rind in Centml India.
1804. FaMi116 in N.W. Provinces, and scarcity in Centml India and Rajputana.
1806. Drought in central districts of Madras, from 1 Trichinopoly to Nelloro.
1807. Famine in central districts of Madras.
1812. Drought in Gujarat, Catch, and Kattyawar, and to sumo oatent in Blinks.; also in Rajputana and Central India.
1613. Famine in Cuteh, Kattyawar, intenso in some parts of Rajpiitana; scarcit y in part,' of NW. Provinces and of Madras.
1823. Drought in Madras.
1824. Drought in Bombay.
1821 Famine in 3Iadras, chiefly in tho north. 1825. Scarcity in Bombay, chiefly in Gujemt and Northern Dekhan.
1832. Drought in tho northern districts of Dimino, oscopt Ganjam ; in the south of Hyderabad and the Southern Mahratta districts.
183.1„ . Drought in north part of Bombay, in Itajputana, and parte of I'anjab and N.W. Provinces.
1833. Famine in northern districts of Marina, intense in Guntur ; scarcity in Hyderabad aiul Southern Mahratta districts.
1834. Scarcity in North Dekban and Gujarat, in Rajputana, the Maur district of the Panjab, and the trans-Junma districts of N.IV. Pro vinces.
1837. Dronght in N.W. Prorinces, eastern states of Rajputana, and south-cast part of l'anjab. 1838. Drought in, Gujerat, Cutch, and Kattyawar.
.1838. Intense famine in Central Doab and trans .
Jumna districts of N.W. Provinces ; also in Dehll and Him? districts.
1839. Scarcity in Gujerat, Cutch, and Katiyawar. 1844. Scanty rainfall in Dekhan.
1845. Sea reify in Dekhan.
1853. Drought in Ceded Districts of Madraa, in South Hyderabad, Sholapur, and Ksiladgi.
1854. Famine in Bellary ; scarcity in adjoining parts of Madras, Hyderabad, and Bombay.
1660. Drought in part of N.W. Provinces and l'anjab, and neighbouring statea of Rajputana.
1861. Famine in Upper Doab of l'rovinces, Dehli, Iliasar, adjoining parts of Rajputaua ; scarcity. in Cutein 1865. Drought in northern part of Madras, in Smith Hyderabad, and north part of Mysore, In the S. Ilaluatta districts, and all W. Bengal.
1866. Famine in Bellary, Grinjam, intense in Orissa and Behar ; scarcity in all adjacent parts of Madras, Mysore, Hyderabad, and Bombay, and in Central and Western Bengal.
1868. Drought in Rajputana, tmns-Jumna districts of N.W. Provinces, north and south-east districts of Centml Provinces, and in Panjab from Jumna to Indus.
1869. Famine intenao in Western Itajputana, and in the trans-Janina districts of Allahnbul and Dalai and Hissar; scarcity in adjacent puts of NW. Provinces a.nd Panjab, Oujerat, Catch, and N. Dekban, and also in the north and south-east districts of the Central Provinces.
1873 Drou ht in N. Behar, awl in part of N.W.
• g Provinces and Oudh.
1874. Famine in Behar, and scarcity in tho strip of N.W. Provinces and Oudh adjacent.
1676. Drought in all Madras and Dekhan, Mysore, and south part of Hyderabad.
1677. Drought in Central Provinces, N.W. l'rovinecs, and Panjab.
1877. Famine in Bladras, Mysore, Bombay, and Ilyderabad, very intense.
1878. Famine in NW. Provinoes and in Kashmir: scarcity in Prinjab.
In the famine of 1873-74, the cost to the Government of British India was Rs. 6,7L,95,700, and in that of 1876-78, Rs. 11,19,43,200.
Buddhists. - Tho use of animal food is not absolutely forbidden to the followers of Buddha, and all of this faith in Burma use enormous quantities of fish, reptiles, and ernstacea ; even the :nor° strict of them, though they may refuse to take life for food, eagerly use flesh when they can get animals killed for them, or find them dead ; Lora accident or disease; and the cow, buffalo, I and horse are all eaten. The Burmese eat the tiger, the hymna, camel, monkey, jerboa rat, field ' rat, bats of kinds, flying fox, flying lemur ; and amongst other creatures, the Palolo viridis or sea worm, and Gordylia palmarum, the grub of the palm weevil, are eaten by one or other of the races in the south and east of Asia, and Australia. In Burma, tiger flesh sells for five annas (70.) a lb. Perhaps no race in the world so largely utilize vegetable and animal substances as the Burmese and Chinese,—the great rivers which intersect the country, and the extended seaboard, providing a large supply of fish, molluscs, and crustacea.