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Page 32
Some of the villages , you will observe , are entirely surrounded by grasslands ,
while others are surrounded by forests . The whole country as you look down on
it is rugged and rough and is cut up by innumerable deep ravines and rock cliffs .
Some of the villages , you will observe , are entirely surrounded by grasslands ,
while others are surrounded by forests . The whole country as you look down on
it is rugged and rough and is cut up by innumerable deep ravines and rock cliffs .
Page 41
... eater to cross , there remained the two suspension bridges , and I felt sure that
if I could close them against the leopard I should be able to confine him to one
side of the Alaknanda , and so reduce by half the area in which to look for him .
... eater to cross , there remained the two suspension bridges , and I felt sure that
if I could close them against the leopard I should be able to confine him to one
side of the Alaknanda , and so reduce by half the area in which to look for him .
Page 116
As we cast a final look over our handiwork - which appeared to us to be very
good - it struck us that if the leopard was to wander round and approach the kill
from our side , and not from the side we expected him to come , he might avoid
both ...
As we cast a final look over our handiwork - which appeared to us to be very
good - it struck us that if the leopard was to wander round and approach the kill
from our side , and not from the side we expected him to come , he might avoid
both ...
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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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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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