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Page 89
On the second night on which I was sitting up over the first cow , the leopard
came . But just as I was raising my rifle and preparing to switch on the torch I had
provided myself with , a woman in the house adjoining the one I was sitting in ...
On the second night on which I was sitting up over the first cow , the leopard
came . But just as I was raising my rifle and preparing to switch on the torch I had
provided myself with , a woman in the house adjoining the one I was sitting in ...
Page 104
Again there was no tree overlooking the kill on which we could sit , and after a
prolonged discussion we eventually ... Where the tree had been cut , stout
branches had grown , and sitting on the old stump surrounded by the branches , I
had a ...
Again there was no tree overlooking the kill on which we could sit , and after a
prolonged discussion we eventually ... Where the tree had been cut , stout
branches had grown , and sitting on the old stump surrounded by the branches , I
had a ...
Page 123
The thoughts of a sportsman - whether pessimistic or optimistic - sitting waiting for
an animal , be it a tiger or be it a leopard , cannot in any conceivable way
influence the actions of the animal he is trying to shoot or , perhaps , to
photograph .
The thoughts of a sportsman - whether pessimistic or optimistic - sitting waiting for
an animal , be it a tiger or be it a leopard , cannot in any conceivable way
influence the actions of the animal he is trying to shoot or , perhaps , to
photograph .
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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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