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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Alaknanda Alaknanda river animal Badrinath barking BARSIL bazaar Bhainswara BHATGAON bridge bushes called carnivora carried climb crossed cyanide dark depression distance dogs door eaten eater evil spirit feet fifty yards fish followed foot footpath Garhwal gin-trap glade goat Golabrai grass ground GWAR head hill hillside hind human kills hundred yards Inspection Bungalow kakar Kedarnath kill the leopard lantern later left bank leopard of Rudraprayag light lying machan mahseer man-eating leopard Mandakini river mango-tree meal minutes morning mountain Naini Naini Tal path patwari Pauri petromax pilgrim road pilgrim shelter platform poison possible prayag previous night pug marks pundit ravine rifle river rock Rudra sadhu sahib scrub jungle seen shoot shot side sight sitting sleep square miles steep steps telescopic sight thornbushes tiger told took track trap tree veranda village walk watched woman