The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag |
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... wide at the base , 2,000 feet wide at the summit , and 900 feet high , and when it burst , ten billion cubic feet of water were released in the short space of six hours . So well was the bursting of the dam timed that , though the flood ...
... wide at the base , 2,000 feet wide at the summit , and 900 feet high , and when it burst , ten billion cubic feet of water were released in the short space of six hours . So well was the bursting of the dam timed that , though the flood ...
Page 117
... wide depression , extending for half a mile down to the pilgrim road , and evidently caused in the days of long ago by a landslide . Beyond this depression , which was about a hundred yards wide at the upper end and about three hundred ...
... wide depression , extending for half a mile down to the pilgrim road , and evidently caused in the days of long ago by a landslide . Beyond this depression , which was about a hundred yards wide at the upper end and about three hundred ...
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... wide ran the entire length of the building , and short flights of stone steps flanked with walls gave access to the veranda , each flight of steps being used by two families . A flagged courtyard , sixty feet wide and three hundred feet ...
... wide ran the entire length of the building , and short flights of stone steps flanked with walls gave access to the veranda , each flight of steps being used by two families . A flagged courtyard , sixty feet wide and three hundred feet ...
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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