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Page 48
The leopard had arrived ; and while I sat in torrential rain with the icy - cold wind
whistling through my wet clothes , he lay dry and snug in the straw below . The
storm was one of the worst I have ever experienced , and while it was at its height
...
The leopard had arrived ; and while I sat in torrential rain with the icy - cold wind
whistling through my wet clothes , he lay dry and snug in the straw below . The
storm was one of the worst I have ever experienced , and while it was at its height
...
Page 83
The gin - trap that had been sent off from Rudraprayag the previous day arrived
while we were having lunch , and in the early evening we took it down to the
glade and , after setting it , poisoned the kill with cyanide . I had no experience of
...
The gin - trap that had been sent off from Rudraprayag the previous day arrived
while we were having lunch , and in the early evening we took it down to the
glade and , after setting it , poisoned the kill with cyanide . I had no experience of
...
Page 134
XX A Wild Boar Hunt The old packman had arrived at the thorn enclosure late the
previous evening . He was packing salt and gur from the bazaar at Hardwar to
the villages beyond Badrinath , and as his flock of sheep and goats were heavily
...
XX A Wild Boar Hunt The old packman had arrived at the thorn enclosure late the
previous evening . He was packing salt and gur from the bazaar at Hardwar to
the villages beyond Badrinath , and as his flock of sheep and goats were heavily
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag |
| Author | Jim Corbett |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1964 |
| Length | 191 pages |
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