Woodman's Trail In Darkest London - Times 5/3/63
Here is a great article I found within the pages of a copy of Jim Corbett's Jungle Lore that I picked up in a dusty old book shop.
The correspondent from The Times recounts his meeting with Jim Corbett in the hill station of Naini Tal in the Kumaon Himalaya during the British Raj. He was lucky enough to have the privilege of walking through the jungle around Kaladhungi with the legendary hunter.
Later in the piece he describes how Corbett got utterly lost in London after he went for a walk and forgot to note either the name of the hotel or the street it was on. Corbett used his tracking skills to retrace his steps:
"Finally I found the way; my eye picked out a poster that had one corner torn away. Soon I came to another place with four or five roads leading off it, and where I was almost stumped. But somewhere about there had been a narrow gully between two tall buildings, where the wind had blown on my right cheek as I passed. Sure enough I found the gully, and the wind was now on my left cheek, so I went on."
Only someone who had spent all his life in the wilds would describe a city in these terms. Great stuff.
Along with this cutting was another which was an article on Sir William Ibbotson, Deputy Commissioner of Garhwal and Kuman and close friend of the legengary hunter Jim Corbett.
The correspondent from The Times recounts his meeting with Jim Corbett in the hill station of Naini Tal in the Kumaon Himalaya during the British Raj. He was lucky enough to have the privilege of walking through the jungle around Kaladhungi with the legendary hunter.
Later in the piece he describes how Corbett got utterly lost in London after he went for a walk and forgot to note either the name of the hotel or the street it was on. Corbett used his tracking skills to retrace his steps:
"Finally I found the way; my eye picked out a poster that had one corner torn away. Soon I came to another place with four or five roads leading off it, and where I was almost stumped. But somewhere about there had been a narrow gully between two tall buildings, where the wind had blown on my right cheek as I passed. Sure enough I found the gully, and the wind was now on my left cheek, so I went on."
Only someone who had spent all his life in the wilds would describe a city in these terms. Great stuff.
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Along with this cutting was another which was an article on Sir William Ibbotson, Deputy Commissioner of Garhwal and Kuman and close friend of the legengary hunter Jim Corbett.
Click on Full to view the article
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