BIG-GAME HUNTER ON WAY HOME

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21308, 30 October 1934, Page 7

BIG-GAME HUNTER ON WAY HOME

ADVENTURES IN INDIA AND AFRICA COMPANION MAULED BY WOUNDED TIGER [THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, October 29. To see his companion badly mauled by a wounded tiger was one of the recent .experiences of Captain J. governing director of the Patrick Steamship Line, and a director °£ a number of other Australian companies, who is a through passenger to Sydney by the liner Niagara. Captain Patrick is well known as a big-game hunter, and is taking back with him f 4 us * ra lia many thousands of feet "Im covering wild life in India, Africa, and Canada. Leaving Sydney a year ago, Captain Patrick, who is accompanied by his wife, first went to India, where he pent two months hunting tigers, Jeopards, and panthers. It was in the Melghat ranges, in the Central Pro- , that he bagged two tigers, and where he saw a forest officer, Mr viaitiand, who was accompanying him, mauled by a tiger. I had got my tiger, and Maitland, ls a n officer with long experience, P=f • , woul ?ded his," said Captain i , tn ® k this morning. "Maitland folwect his animal into the lantana, or v»h!r'- t and was about to finish it off . r!!f sprang at him. He fired again of j. '"tied the beast, but the impetus and s P rln 8 carried it on top of him, nn , as l an ded it crunched its jaws lanH -,us * : below the waist. Maitj> wa s undoubtedly saved by a Sam leath ' le was wearing, the nSw" >? ei A lg b ? tten through. We liitai Maitland into the nearest hosalthouph doctors saved his life, f \va<s -,k ! was ve woe ks before he ■ ab out again." f S Ul j. months • s Pe"t in Kenya took Lin ? Uganda, Captain Patrick Picture * i ' ec . ur i n g many excellent from p1 d °i a variety of animals, or "Tr,m - , s to Thompson's gazelle, known n T leS \r' as t!ley are familarly lions n . ! r . wee ks he saw 46 "W„ 2 S \ of which he photographed. v.'ould waU t! i SSh u t , an y thi ng that Captain d» ° , Photographed." said CL!f triCk ' ■ "° ne bad »on. * charged u ■ spc ; Clmen lhat 1 shot, HeJa* * v ,'- e before he was killed, ""y seco!^ 3 j c,lai 'g e when I got 35 S n fr S 0 h m he fell < lcad "bout