I LADY'S FIGHT WITH LIONS.

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 19, 11 December 1906, Page 2

I LADY'S FIGHT WITH LIONS.

1 BULLET PLANTED NEAR A HUS' - 1 j BEAST’S HEART. ; _ I The following exciting details of a g | lion hunt are given in a letter from e j Neirobi, British East Africa :—* 1 j “We had a very fine lion hunt the other day,” says the writer : “in 2 fact it would be impossible to see q wild lions under more favorable circumstances. 1 “A party of three (including a 3 lady) were taking a camping tour, _ and had shot a lion. The next day f we went out to the scene of the eiiH counter, but found some big animal _ had dragged away the remains of the dead forest king. “We followed the trail, which fled into a thick bush. To this we set _ fire, and out bounded two magnificent male lions, both with long tawny black manes. We could not, however, ’ get a fair shot at them, and they 1 made off across the veldt like two _ enormous bullocks, j “Our Somali pony men galloped ± after them and head'*! them into a’ L > bit of thick bush. We set fire to _ this, and then the enraged lions _ came right at us. j “The lady of the party showed y great nerve, and fired at the larger r of the lions, her bullet, as we afterwards found, taking effect in the _ region of the heart. As this animrl . made a dying effort to reach us wi put a 450 bullet into him, and th huge lion rolled over and died. His , companion got away, and we saw him no more. j “It was a thrilling experience, in which few women would have shorn* to such advantage as our plucky I companion on this occasion.”