PYTHON'S HUGE MEAL.
SIXTEEN FOWLS EATEN.
ALSO TWO HUNDRED EGGS. '; [from otto own correspondent.] PIETERMAB3TZBURG. June SO. A remarkable occurrence is mentioned by Father Bernard Husa, of St. Francis* Native College, Mariannhill, Natal, in a letter to Mr. F. W. Fitzsimons, the director of the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa. The father says:—" Three days ago a very large python, an inveterate fowl thief, entered our -house through the fowl hole; but, after the feast was over, the snake could not get out. So it climbed up and lay on a rafter, the head hanging down. Thus it was easy to kill it-with a hoe." .' When opened the python was found to contain ' two big fowls, no less than fourteen young - fowls, and a'' number of crabs. . Two hundred eggs were also taken from it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18471, 7 August 1923, Page 4
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