LION CHARGES MOTOR CAR
Mr. A. H. Snow,'tli n Ameikau i naturalist, has had a thrilling ev-j pericnee outbid- Nairobi, while obtaining cin -ma p: tare- am! specimens for the Oakland- Museum. California. Hr had stationed his photographer (it a •.■onvenieiU hummock, and was himself beating the game up to - the camera by driving round in a car when he struck a party of five lions. He stopped the ear and bred, but missed, and two e.i the animals char" d. Mr. Snow immeJial'ly ieversed and race.! away, but the two animals kept pa"-” a slur; distance behind. Tin hunter was sudd mly horrified to find that a laird lion had ma: 1 " a demur, and wa? wailing for thj car to come up. Whim, within a Lw yards the third Hop. sprang, but thr driver rau>d Ihe vehicle to swerve, w.th the result (dial tin- beast hit Hi? side of the car 7 and rolled off. The naturalist was beginning to leave the other two animals behind when thr car hit a atone and he was flung pm. Tin’; frightened the lions, .and they made off, though Mr. Snow sneer d ed in shooting them later. The camera man kept on taking pi'fires the whole time.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 49, Issue 7764, 5 August 1921, Page 4
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