The Forests of Upper India and Their InhabitantsE. Arnold, 1902 - 344 pàgines |
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Pàgina xi
... shooting down multitudes of innocent animals apparently for no object whatsoever . Nor do they even omit to count up the wounded ones . Such descriptions make one sick , and little the wiser as to the nature of the country or the habits ...
... shooting down multitudes of innocent animals apparently for no object whatsoever . Nor do they even omit to count up the wounded ones . Such descriptions make one sick , and little the wiser as to the nature of the country or the habits ...
Pàgina 9
... shooting as he had nowhere else found the equal of . In those early days a very steep path had been engineered up the face of the precipice from the Juli side , up which everything had to be carried on coolies ' heads . Now there was a ...
... shooting as he had nowhere else found the equal of . In those early days a very steep path had been engineered up the face of the precipice from the Juli side , up which everything had to be carried on coolies ' heads . Now there was a ...
Pàgina 26
... Gurkha soldiers from the regiment at Almora , who remained for some months watching to try and shoot the man - eater , but without result ; and one hundred rupees reward was offered for his skin . The 26 THE FORESTS OF UPPER INDIA.
... Gurkha soldiers from the regiment at Almora , who remained for some months watching to try and shoot the man - eater , but without result ; and one hundred rupees reward was offered for his skin . The 26 THE FORESTS OF UPPER INDIA.
Pàgina 30
... shoots very badly . He had , however , great faith in the sahib's double - barrelled Westley - Richards rifle , which * Arboricola rufogularis . † Strange to say , a bear will eat his own paw off before he will cut the thong . had ...
... shoots very badly . He had , however , great faith in the sahib's double - barrelled Westley - Richards rifle , which * Arboricola rufogularis . † Strange to say , a bear will eat his own paw off before he will cut the thong . had ...
Pàgina 31
... shooting matches against all the North - West Provinces . Jussoo was a marvellous tracker , and could follow the khoj ( track ) over every ground and tell how long ago the beast had passed . He knew well the ' pug ' of the Juli tiger ...
... shooting matches against all the North - West Provinces . Jussoo was a marvellous tracker , and could follow the khoj ( track ) over every ground and tell how long ago the beast had passed . He knew well the ' pug ' of the Juli tiger ...
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