The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag |
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... wide at the base , 2,000 feet wide at the summit , and 900 feet high , and when it burst , ten billion cubic feet of water were released in the short space of six hours . So well was the bursting of the dam timed that though the flood ...
... wide at the base , 2,000 feet wide at the summit , and 900 feet high , and when it burst , ten billion cubic feet of water were released in the short space of six hours . So well was the bursting of the dam timed that though the flood ...
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... wide chinks in the partition , trying to tear one of the planks out . For a long time the man lay and sweated , while the leopard tried plank after plank . Eventually being unable to find a weak place in the partition , the leopard left ...
... wide chinks in the partition , trying to tear one of the planks out . For a long time the man lay and sweated , while the leopard tried plank after plank . Eventually being unable to find a weak place in the partition , the leopard left ...
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... wide depression , extending for half a mile down to the pilgrim road , and evidently caused in the days of long ago by a landslide . Beyond this depression , which was about a hundred yards wide at the upper end and about three hundred ...
... wide depression , extending for half a mile down to the pilgrim road , and evidently caused in the days of long ago by a landslide . Beyond this depression , which was about a hundred yards wide at the upper end and about three hundred ...
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Alaknanda Alaknanda River animal Badrinath barking BARSIL bazaar Bhainswara bridge carnivora carried climb crossed cyanide dark distance dogs door eaten eater evil spirit feet fifty yards fish followed foot footpath four Garhwal gin trap glade goat Golabrai grass ground GWAR head hill hind human kills hundred yards Ibbotson inspection bungalow kakar Kedarnath killing the leopard lantern later left bank Leopard of Rudraprayag light lying machan mahseer Man-Eating Leopard Mandakini River mango tree meal minutes morning Naini Naini Tal path Patwari Pauri petromax pilgrim road pilgrim shelter platform poison previous night pug marks Pundit ravine returned rifle river rock sadhu Sahib scrub jungle seen shoot shot side sight sitting sleep square miles steep steps suspension bridge telescopic sight thorn bushes tiger told took track veranda village walk watched woman wound