The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag |
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Page 21
This sheep I tied in the scrub jungle close to the path up which the leopard had
gone some twelve hours earlier . Next morning I was up betimes . As I left the
bungalow I again saw the pug marks of the man - eater where he had stepped off
the ...
This sheep I tied in the scrub jungle close to the path up which the leopard had
gone some twelve hours earlier . Next morning I was up betimes . As I left the
bungalow I again saw the pug marks of the man - eater where he had stepped off
the ...
Page 87
For ten minutes I lay on the wet ground . When daylight had all but gone I
regained the path and , taking every precaution , covered the remaining distance
to the headman's house . Once during the night the headman roused me from a
sound ...
For ten minutes I lay on the wet ground . When daylight had all but gone I
regained the path and , taking every precaution , covered the remaining distance
to the headman's house . Once during the night the headman roused me from a
sound ...
Page 166
not finding one , he had picked the boy up by the small of the back and , leaping
the hedge , gone down a wall ten feet high on the far side . There was a cattle
track at the foot of this third wall and the leopard had only gone a short distance ...
not finding one , he had picked the boy up by the small of the back and , leaping
the hedge , gone down a wall ten feet high on the far side . There was a cattle
track at the foot of this third wall and the leopard had only gone a short distance ...
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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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