BIG GAME HONEYMOON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18333, 24 February 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)

BIG GAME HONEYMOON.

YOUNG COUPLE'S TRAVELS.

A newly-married couple, who began their honeymoon with the intention of spending a month in. Japan, extended their holiday to an eventful two and a half years' hunting trip in iiwo Continents. ' . i '

Mr. and Mrs. Agustus Healy, who recently ended their trip by a very brief visit to London, are the son ana daughterin law of the well-known millionaire band instrument maker of Chicago. In the spring of 1920 they were married, and left America for Japan. While in Asia they decided to visit "the Straits Settlements, and there met a • party of English people ,who told them of the wonders of the , Tibetan highlands, and persuaded them to visit Tibet before' returning to America.

" WhaT guns will you take with you?" isked the English : sportsmen. - "We hadn't thought of taking any,'' ■was the reply, followed by the explanation that neither had any knowledge of firearms, -with the exception "of that gained by Mr. Healy during the war. " Their English friends f told the youns; Americans that they wctuld. be laughed at if they went into- the fine hunting country of Tibet without rifles, and so an " Express " was. added to the equipment for Mr. Healy and a lighter rifle for his wife. - .. .

Out of these casual beginnings developed a hunting expedition in two continents. Husband and wife visited the mysterious city of Lhassa, and maclo friends with another party of English people, who persuaded the couple to accompany them to Africa.

By this time Mr. and Mrs. HeaJy had developed . into inveterate hunters. In Africa they had plenty of opportunity to indulge their taste, f For part of the time they had the benefit of the oompany of the famous African shot,' Mr. W. C. Judd, who accompanied Theodore Roosevelt on many 'of his trips. . , Mrs. Healy has to her credit an interesting "bag." Lions and leopards fell to the rifle which she had never handled before,the Tibetan journey was projected. Husband and wife were jointly responsible for an elephant, to the killing of which came swarms of natives bent on a cheap meat supply, and for a littleknown black rhinocerous. This beast had a rear horn measuring 37iin., 7Jin. longer, than any; recorded specimen. Both horns point forward instead of backward, as is usual. %