The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c26.109
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c26.109
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The animals which lived in the jungles would, of course, be less in evidence for the Europeans who passed through the land, but they heard of them by native report. Nearchus never saw a live tiger, only a tiger's skin²; Megasthenes heard that there were tigers twice the size of lions, and he knew of one in captivity which, while held by four men, fastened the claws of his free hind-leg upon a mule and mastered it³. The Greeks heard too of the wild sheep and goats of the hills⁴, and of the rhinoceros, though the account given of it (taken probably from Megasthenes) can certainly not be based upon actual observation⁵.