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drink - in the way of tea - our old friend the petromax lamp - which on this
occasion I decided I would carry myself , if the necessity arose - two spare rifles
and ammunition , my fishing reel , a liberal supply of cyanide , and the gin trap
Sitting in ...
drink - in the way of tea - our old friend the petromax lamp - which on this
occasion I decided I would carry myself , if the necessity arose - two spare rifles
and ammunition , my fishing reel , a liberal supply of cyanide , and the gin trap
Sitting in ...
Page 116
After we had dug a hole sufficiently long , wide , and deep - removing the
displaced earth to a 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 ...
After we had dug a hole sufficiently long , wide , and deep - removing the
displaced earth to a 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 ...
Page 118
Shortly after it got dark , it began to rain , and I whispered to Ibbotson that I feared
it would prove our undoing for , if the additional weight of rain water on the
delicately set gin trap did not set it off , the contracting of the fishing line because
of ...
Shortly after it got dark , it began to rain , and I whispered to Ibbotson that I feared
it would prove our undoing for , if the additional weight of rain water on the
delicately set gin trap did not set it off , the contracting of the fishing line because
of ...
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Contents
The Pilgrim Road 3 13 The Hunters Hunted 70 | 7 |
Terror 11 | 86 |
Investigation 31 | 102 |
Copyright | |
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able Alaknanda animal approached arrived asked bank blood body bridge bungalow bushes carried climb close crossed dark dead decided direction distance dogs door early eaten feet field fire fish five followed foot four further Garhwal getting give goat gone grass ground half hand head heard hearing hill human hundred yards Ibbotson jungle kill later leaving leopard light lived look lying man-eater miles minutes morning never night passed path pilgrim 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 thorn tiger told took track trap tree turned village waiting walk watched wide wind woman
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag |
| Author | Jim Corbett |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1948 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 188 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Romance / Time Travel |
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