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Page 89
There were twenty - four hours in every day of the many weeks I spent in Garhwal
, and time and time again after sitting up all night , I walked endless miles next
day , visiting distant villages from which reports had come of unsuccessful attacks
...
There were twenty - four hours in every day of the many weeks I spent in Garhwal
, and time and time again after sitting up all night , I walked endless miles next
day , visiting distant villages from which reports had come of unsuccessful attacks
...
Page 162
I never - if I can help it - walk uphill immediately after a meal , but here I had no
option , and for the first three miles , in ... A short stretch of comparatively flat
ground at the end of the three miles gave me back my wind , and after that I
walked ...
I never - if I can help it - walk uphill immediately after a meal , but here I had no
option , and for the first three miles , in ... A short stretch of comparatively flat
ground at the end of the three miles gave me back my wind , and after that I
walked ...
Page 172
When a leopard or tiger is walking at its normal pace only the imprints of the hind
feet are seen , but when the normal pace is ... Here he had a better reason for the
long walk he had undertaken , for he was anxious to put as great a distance as ...
When a leopard or tiger is walking at its normal pace only the imprints of the hind
feet are seen , but when the normal pace is ... Here he had a better reason for the
long walk he had undertaken , for he was anxious to put as great a distance as ...
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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 fifty 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
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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