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Page 37
The beat , which proved to be a blank , was completed and a hurried council held
, the upshot of which was that Ibbotson , his party , and the two hundred beaters
set off up the right bank , to cross the river four miles farther up by a swing bridge
...
The beat , which proved to be a blank , was completed and a hurried council held
, the upshot of which was that Ibbotson , his party , and the two hundred beaters
set off up the right bank , to cross the river four miles farther up by a swing bridge
...
Page 162
offered to accompany me back to Bhainswara to show me the way , while the
other said he would stay the night at Rudraprayag as he had recently had fever
and could not do another eighteen miles that day . I finished breakfast while the
men ...
offered to accompany me back to Bhainswara to show me the way , while the
other said he would stay the night at Rudraprayag as he had recently had fever
and could not do another eighteen miles that day . I finished breakfast while the
men ...
Page 171
And what but bad luck had made a leopard who possibly had thirty square miles
in which to wander , arrive at a particular spot in those thirty miles just as the man
- eater , not finding his kill where he had left it , was quite conceivably on his ...
And what but bad luck had made a leopard who possibly had thirty square miles
in which to wander , arrive at a particular spot in those thirty miles just as the man
- eater , not finding his kill where he had left it , was quite conceivably on his ...
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able Alaknanda animal appeared approached arrived asked bank blood body bridge bungalow called carried climb close crossed dark dead decided direction distance dogs door early eaten fear feet field fire fish five followed foot four Garhwal getting give goat gone grass ground half hand head heard hill hope human hundred yards Ibbotson jungle kill later leaving leopard light lived look lying man-eater miles minutes morning mountain never night object passed path pilgrims poison position possible pug marks ravine reached returned rifle river road rock Rudraprayag seen shelter shoot short shot showed side sight sitting sleep sound started steps taken tell tiger told took track trap tree turned village waiting walk watched wide woman
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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