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XXI.—An Account of the Sheep-Eater of Hindústán

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

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The communication which Major-General Hardwicke has the honour to lay before the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, though not describing an occurrence of recent date, he trusts may yet be found sufficiently interesting to claim a place in the Transactions of the Society. General Hardwicke has frequently heard the subject mentioned of late, but has found very few persons who were inclined to attach credit to it, owing to its remarkable deviation from the usual course of nature; and having himself not only seen the man designated “ the Sheep-eater,” and witnessed an exhibition of his carnivorous habits, but made notes and drawings in elucidation of the facts as displayed in the presence of many officers of the military station of Futtehgurh and the native inhabitants of the surrounding villages., on the 3d of March 1796; he now proceeds to subjoin the substance of his memorandums, in explanation of the accompanying plate.

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Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , July 1833 , pp. 379 - 382
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1833

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References

* See Plate 12.

† See the Plate, Fig. 1.

* The Aslepias giganta of botanists. It is used by the natives of India for many medicinal purposes: among the number, it is useful in removing warts and other excrescences. It is the milky juice they apply, which flows plentifully from all parts of the plant when broken or bruised; and on the present occasion, the Sheep-eater said he ate it to assist digestion.

* 8vo. London, 1816.

* “ Claude Russel, Esq., one of the present Judges of the Court of Appeal and Circuit for the division of Benares.”