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When an animal , be it a leopard or be it a tiger , becomes a man - eater , it is
given a place name for purposes of identification . The name so given does not
necessarily imply that the animal began its man - eating career at that particular
place ...
When an animal , be it a leopard or be it a tiger , becomes a man - eater , it is
given a place name for purposes of identification . The name so given does not
necessarily imply that the animal began its man - eating career at that particular
place ...
Page 57
When I asked how he proposed to accomplish this feat , he said he would make
an effigy of a tiger and after he had , by prayer , induced the evil spirit to enter it ,
he would set the effigy afloat on the Ganges and the river would convey it down
to ...
When I asked how he proposed to accomplish this feat , he said he would make
an effigy of a tiger and after he had , by prayer , induced the evil spirit to enter it ,
he would set the effigy afloat on the Ganges and the river would convey it down
to ...
Page 146
The same can be said of tigers , but here the sportsman who goes on foot to look
for courting tigers should be quite sure that he wants to see them , for a tigress -
never a tiger - is very sensitive at these times , and quite understandably so , for ...
The same can be said of tigers , but here the sportsman who goes on foot to look
for courting tigers should be quite sure that he wants to see them , for a tigress -
never a tiger - is very sensitive at these times , and quite understandably so , for ...
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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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