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Page 72
I had telegraphed to Naini Tal the previous day to say I was returning home via
Pauri and Kotdwara ; this telegram I decided to cancel , and instead of going by
rail , I would return on foot the way I had come . These details settled , and the ...
I had telegraphed to Naini Tal the previous day to say I was returning home via
Pauri and Kotdwara ; this telegram I decided to cancel , and instead of going by
rail , I would return on foot the way I had come . These details settled , and the ...
Page 136
... crossing from the outer to the inner edge of the road and creeping along under
shelter of the hill he had stalked the grazing animals and , after killing the steel -
grey goat but without even troubling to drink its blood , had returned to the road .
... crossing from the outer to the inner edge of the road and creeping along under
shelter of the hill he had stalked the grazing animals and , after killing the steel -
grey goat but without even troubling to drink its blood , had returned to the road .
Page 177
After an absence of over six months he returned to his home in Golabrai , broken
in health and with his hair turned grey . Photographs were taken five years later ,
and scarcely show the leopard ' s teeth - marks on the left side of the pundit ' s ...
After an absence of over six months he returned to his home in Golabrai , broken
in health and with his hair turned grey . Photographs were taken five years later ,
and scarcely show the leopard ' s teeth - marks on the left side of the pundit ' s ...
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| Title | The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag |
| Author | Jim Corbett |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1964 |
| Length | 191 pages |
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