Assertion: mongoose | /r/HasProperty | introduced into the island of jamaica
Facets:
value: for the ostensible purpose
type: PURPOSE
value: in the west indies
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: ABOUT fifteen or twenty years ago the mongoose (Herpestes griseus) was imported from India by the colonial government and introduced into the island of Jamaica, in the West Indies, for the ostensible purpose of destroying the large, gray, white-bellied rat which played havoc with the growing cane on the sugar plantations.