Thirty Years of ShikarW. Blackwood & Sons, 1895 - 373 páginas |
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... reached by slow and wearying travel by palanquin , or slower journeying by river in the old - time boat - house of India - the budgerow -the great majority of Calcutta men passed their lives without penetrating into the interior farther ...
... reached by slow and wearying travel by palanquin , or slower journeying by river in the old - time boat - house of India - the budgerow -the great majority of Calcutta men passed their lives without penetrating into the interior farther ...
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... reached the ground the panther was still there , and a keen- eyed native pointed it out to me . " Hitherward was its head , " said this man , ' thitherward its tail . Doesn't the sahib see it ? There , there ! " and he pointed to a spot ...
... reached the ground the panther was still there , and a keen- eyed native pointed it out to me . " Hitherward was its head , " said this man , ' thitherward its tail . Doesn't the sahib see it ? There , there ! " and he pointed to a spot ...
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... ( reached only by the avenue of his stomach ) , not women done to death on the Queen's highway . But for the defence , the case was a feeble one . Mookerjie was at some pains to strengthen it . He set up an alibi , and not satisfied with ...
... ( reached only by the avenue of his stomach ) , not women done to death on the Queen's highway . But for the defence , the case was a feeble one . Mookerjie was at some pains to strengthen it . He set up an alibi , and not satisfied with ...
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... reached . But the cattle , sometimes a hundred or more , took to the rapidly flowing water as naturally as ducks , and the men who drove , hold- ing on now by the tail of one cow and anon by another cow's tail , did the three or four ...
... reached . But the cattle , sometimes a hundred or more , took to the rapidly flowing water as naturally as ducks , and the men who drove , hold- ing on now by the tail of one cow and anon by another cow's tail , did the three or four ...
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... reached the point of attack , there was nothing to fight with except a few fowls , wherewith we promptly did battle . These fowls and some blue rocks constituted all the shikar I had during that jaunt through Santhal jungles , and all ...
... reached the point of attack , there was nothing to fight with except a few fowls , wherewith we promptly did battle . These fowls and some blue rocks constituted all the shikar I had during that jaunt through Santhal jungles , and all ...
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