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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 124
ground , I located - in some very heavy undergrowth - the exact position of a tiger
I had long wished to photograph , by moving a troop of langurs in the direction in
which I suspected the tiger to be lying up . Seventy yards from the tiger there ...
ground , I located - in some very heavy undergrowth - the exact position of a tiger
I had long wished to photograph , by moving a troop of langurs in the direction in
which I suspected the tiger to be lying up . Seventy yards from the tiger there ...
Page 125
Very carefully I stalked the tree I have referred to , and avoiding contact with the
creepers — the upper tendrils and leaves of which might have been visible from
where the tiger was lying - I climbed to the fork where I had a comfortable seat ...
Very carefully I stalked the tree I have referred to , and avoiding contact with the
creepers — the upper tendrils and leaves of which might have been visible from
where the tiger was lying - I climbed to the fork where I had a comfortable seat ...
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able Alaknanda animal approached arrived asked bank blood body bridge bungalow bushes called carried climb close crossed dark dead decided direction distance dogs door early eaten feet field fire fish five followed foot four further Garhwal give goat gone grass ground half hand head heard hill hope human hundred yards Ibbotson jungle kill later leaving leopard light lived look lying man-eater miles minutes morning never night passed path pilgrims 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 telescopic sight tell thorn tiger told took track trap tree turned village waiting walk watched wide woman
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag |
| Author | Jim Corbett |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1948 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 31 May 2007 |
| Length | 188 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Romance / Time Travel |
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