ENCOUNTER WITH A LION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 468, 29 March 1909, Page 6

ENCOUNTER WITH A LION.

• H> BRITISH OFFICER'S FIGHT FOR LIFE. Among the passengers who arrived at 1 lymouth recently by the P. and 0. steamer Marmora was Lieutenant; G. S. Anderson -Bth Hussars, of Dawlish. Lieutenant Anderson, who has been attached to the Intelligence Department, is suffering from bloodpoisoning, the result of a mauling, received from a lion on the borders of Somaliland' and Abyssinia. In company with a native servant, Lieutenant Anderson went put for a day's shooting. Finding a lion at short distance he fired and the shot grazed tho animal's skull, slightly wounding it. Tho infuriated beast leaped upon tho officer,, throwing him to the ground, and bit him through tho knfe just as he fired a charge from his double-bar-relled sporting riflo through its head. The animal continued to claw and bite him, while Lieutenant Anderson, fighting for his life, cjubbed the lion with tho butt end of tho ride. All tho while blood was streaming from the wounds' of the lion, which was of unusual size. Tho native servant, although practically unarmed, rushed to tho aid of his injured master, and at length the animal, exhausted from tho loss of blood, slunk away, leaving Lieutenant Anderson almost overcome and in a very precarious condition. Subsequently the lion was found dead at a littlo distance from the sccno of tho encounter. Tho injured officer was conveyed to tho coast,. and at Aden embarked for London, to be treated in a hospital.