The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag |
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Page 14
... turned down low to con- serve oil . Round about midnight , when the occupants of both the rooms were asleep , the leopard entered by way of the nar- row slip of a window , avoiding in some miraculous way knocking over the brass vessel ...
... turned down low to con- serve oil . Round about midnight , when the occupants of both the rooms were asleep , the leopard entered by way of the nar- row slip of a window , avoiding in some miraculous way knocking over the brass vessel ...
Page 105
... turned and ran up the track . It was too good a calling goat to abandon - it had attracted the leopard once , and might do so again . Moreover , we had only a few hours previously paid good money for it , so we in turn ran up the track ...
... turned and ran up the track . It was too good a calling goat to abandon - it had attracted the leopard once , and might do so again . Moreover , we had only a few hours previously paid good money for it , so we in turn ran up the track ...
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... turned round , I saw to my amazement that the animal I had mistaken for a white goat was an albino musk - deer . With only some ten feet between us the game little animal was standing its ground and sneezing defiance at me . Turning ...
... turned round , I saw to my amazement that the animal I had mistaken for a white goat was an albino musk - deer . With only some ten feet between us the game little animal was standing its ground and sneezing defiance at me . Turning ...
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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 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