The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag |
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Page 83
... distance to the head- man's house . Once during the night the headman roused me from a sound sleep to tell me he had heard the leopard scratching on the door , and when I opened the door next morning I saw the pug marks of the man ...
... distance to the head- man's house . Once during the night the headman roused me from a sound sleep to tell me he had heard the leopard scratching on the door , and when I opened the door next morning I saw the pug marks of the man ...
Page 116
... distance - we put the gin trap in it , and when the powerful springs that closed the jaws had been depressed , and the plate that constituted the trigger adjusted as delicately as we dared set it , we covered the whole trap with a layer ...
... distance - we put the gin trap in it , and when the powerful springs that closed the jaws had been depressed , and the plate that constituted the trigger adjusted as delicately as we dared set it , we covered the whole trap with a layer ...
Page 178
... distance between the goat and my machan was about twenty feet , but the night was so dark under the dense foliage of the tree that my straining eyes could not pene- trate even this short distance , so I closed them and con- centrated on ...
... distance between the goat and my machan was about twenty feet , but the night was so dark under the dense foliage of the tree that my straining eyes could not pene- trate even this short distance , so I closed them and con- centrated on ...
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Alaknanda Alaknanda River animal Badrinath barking BARSIL bazaar Bhainswara bridge carnivora carried climb crossed cyanide dark distance dogs door eaten eater evil spirit feet fifty yards fish followed foot footpath four Garhwal gin trap glade goat Golabrai grass ground GWAR head hill hind human kills hundred yards Ibbotson inspection bungalow kakar Kedarnath killing the leopard lantern later left bank Leopard of Rudraprayag light lying machan mahseer Man-Eating Leopard Mandakini River mango tree meal minutes morning Naini Naini Tal path Patwari Pauri petromax pilgrim road pilgrim shelter platform poison previous night pug marks Pundit ravine returned rifle river rock sadhu Sahib scrub jungle seen shoot shot side sight sitting sleep square miles steep steps suspension bridge telescopic sight thorn bushes tiger told took track veranda village walk watched woman wound