Word: andamans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moslems and Hindus that the British were trying to make Christians of them. The greased cartridges hit a bull's-eye of hate, and at Meerut 85 sepoys refused duty. After a suitable court-martial, the older mutineers were shackled on parade to be carted off to the Andaman Islands, 600 miles off the Indian coast. Their comrades revolted, killed all the officers and wives they could find, unshackled the sepoys and, for want of another place to go, marched on Delhi...
Birds and reptiles have always abounded in the Andaman Islands, a series of lush green mountaintops dotting the Bay of Bengal. But up to 25 years ago the mammal population of the Andamans was a poor minority. The only wild four-footed friends the island Pygmies could boast were a few small pigs, rats and native, skunklike creatures. In 1928 an Indian government expert visited the Andamans and decided that what the islands needed was a properly decorative quadruped. He introduced a pair (male & female) of dainty spotted chital deer. With no natural enemies to bother them, the chital deer...
Last year another government expert visited the Andamans. What the islands now needed, he decided, was a pair of panthers to control the deer. The panthers were soon delivered, and last week New Delhi's Forestry Department announced that they are already making a deep impression on the deer population. Furthermore, it said, there should be no danger of a new epidemic of wild life on Andaman-both panthers are females...