TERRIBLE ENCOUNTERS WITH LIONS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2278, 15 September 1899, Page 5

TERRIBLE ENCOUNTERS WITH LIONS.

In the record »t experiences, written by two Ei iflisb hospital nursfs—Hose Blenuerfcassett and Lucy Sicilian—who went to South Africa, we read : " Of tbe danger from wild beaits the following event will show Mr. Teal, oiie of two brothers who weie cultivating a farm, wmt out prtspeetiig, taking with bim a native heivant. '•The aext day the native rt turned, besi.le himsdf with terror, and told the elder Teal that his brother had beea deyoured by a lion.

" Snatching up a rifle, the distracted brother sped away to where his brother's wag;;oa was still out-spanned. After a brief search, the bead of the unhappy young Teal was found under a bank. Part of his arm was lyiag close by.

" A prospector named Vogler, campel somewhere between Beir* aud L'aitali, was told bj natives tliat, two white men were ' besieged by lions a hundred miles away.' Vogler wsstbd do time. Taking witu uim a «ui If. and boy> to carry provisions, he walked the bundled n:i!es in less than two days and a half.

" With some difficulty Vogler obtained #d mission to the hut. Then he found two white men in an indescribable condition. One ninu was lying oil a rude stretcher uaoonscious The other man, who was still conscious, told Vogler that his comrade bad caught the fevei and the natives had deserted, as they often do in sickness

" One moonlight mgbt, hearing a noise outsiiie the but, he took his rifle, and threw ope& tie door. Straight in front, about tweaty paces distant, stood a large lion ; he firtd, a«d killeo it. As he lowered his gun, the lioness, which he bad aot perceived, stole noiselessly around the hut, and seized his right hand, and literally tore it off.

" The man darted id the hut, banged the door, and, in spite of his terrible wound, piled sack* against the door. His hand was gone, fearing that he would bleed to death, he melted some brown sugar and plunged the stump of bis arm in it."