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... history will be , as far as possible , confined to the matter in hand - Indian shikar — or to sub- jects which , whether cognate thereto or not , shall incidentally suggest themselves . I And now that I try to conjure back out of the ...
... history will be , as far as possible , confined to the matter in hand - Indian shikar — or to sub- jects which , whether cognate thereto or not , shall incidentally suggest themselves . I And now that I try to conjure back out of the ...
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... history of the great Torrens ' hunt might be incredulous if we said the boars killed were a hundred , neither more nor less . Possibly we were moved to argue thus by that old - time story of the Indian colonel who , being asked why he ...
... history of the great Torrens ' hunt might be incredulous if we said the boars killed were a hundred , neither more nor less . Possibly we were moved to argue thus by that old - time story of the Indian colonel who , being asked why he ...
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... history of the sedition of India's pampered native army was throughout a long chronicle of surprises and contradictions : almost always it was the unexpected that happened , or the expected that happened at a time when it was least ...
... history of the sedition of India's pampered native army was throughout a long chronicle of surprises and contradictions : almost always it was the unexpected that happened , or the expected that happened at a time when it was least ...
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... history of that great upheaval is , in fact , a narrative of contrarieties , and the Deoghur epi- sode forms an appropriate page of it . It began with the 5th Irregular Cavalry sta- tioned at Rhooni , two and a half miles from the ...
... history of that great upheaval is , in fact , a narrative of contrarieties , and the Deoghur epi- sode forms an appropriate page of it . It began with the 5th Irregular Cavalry sta- tioned at Rhooni , two and a half miles from the ...
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... History very much repeated itself in this incident , for again , and for the third time , it happened to me to shoot an imaginary tiger in a cave . But disappointment and wasted ammunition were all that I had to deplore on those ...
... History very much repeated itself in this incident , for again , and for the third time , it happened to me to shoot an imaginary tiger in a cave . But disappointment and wasted ammunition were all that I had to deplore on those ...
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