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Journal of a Tour in India Godfrey Charles Mundy. SCENE NEAR HURDWAR . A party of sportsmen entering a marsh in search of a tiger . Three of them ( sportsmen ) , together with the pad - elephants , proceed in line to beat the covert ...
Journal of a Tour in India Godfrey Charles Mundy. SCENE NEAR HURDWAR . A party of sportsmen entering a marsh in search of a tiger . Three of them ( sportsmen ) , together with the pad - elephants , proceed in line to beat the covert ...
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... parties of three , one day intervening between each party , in order to allow time for the bearers at the several stages to return to their posts . Captain Macan ( the Persian interpreter ) , Colonel Daw- kins ( a brother aide - de ...
... parties of three , one day intervening between each party , in order to allow time for the bearers at the several stages to return to their posts . Captain Macan ( the Persian interpreter ) , Colonel Daw- kins ( a brother aide - de ...
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... party of tigers - probably speculating upon picking up a straggling bearer - had sprung off the rocks , and dashed across the road , bounding between my palankeen and that of Colonel D. , who was scarcely ten yards a - head ! The ...
... party of tigers - probably speculating upon picking up a straggling bearer - had sprung off the rocks , and dashed across the road , bounding between my palankeen and that of Colonel D. , who was scarcely ten yards a - head ! The ...
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... party ! The tigers , if they had calcu- lated upon one of our number for their evening meal , must have gone ... party that had preceded us . He was seized with an apoplectic fit on getting out of his * It is said that a tiger lying in ...
... party ! The tigers , if they had calcu- lated upon one of our number for their evening meal , must have gone ... party that had preceded us . He was seized with an apoplectic fit on getting out of his * It is said that a tiger lying in ...
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... party , and , with no other food than a couple of hard- boiled eggs , followed us the whole way to Cawnpore , a dis- tance of nearly 80 miles . 30th . At 4 P.M. we at length reached our destination , having been two days longer than ...
... party , and , with no other food than a couple of hard- boiled eggs , followed us the whole way to Cawnpore , a dis- tance of nearly 80 miles . 30th . At 4 P.M. we at length reached our destination , having been two days longer than ...
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