PRINCE IN UGANDA.
SHAM FIGHT BY NATIVES.
DUKE KILLS A LIONESS. British Wireless. RUGBY, Oct. 17. The Prince of Wales spent part of yesterday at Mengo, the native capital of Uganda, where the natives in full war array carried out a thrilling sham fight in honour of the occasion The Prince witnessed the evolutions with great in tercst. The Duke of Gloucester, who is on a big game hunting expedition in Uganda, has numbered a magnificent specimen of the African lioness among his bag.
It was recently stated by East Africa that the Duke of Gloucester was to be accompanied on his hunting trip by his equerry and also Mr. Sydney Waller, an East African hunter. Mr. Waller has arranged that the party shall first shoot in Kenya and Tanganyika Territory and then motor through the Southern Highlands via Iringa and Tuknyu to Abercorn, in Northern Rhodesia. Another hunting safari is then planned in. a circular direction via Lake Rukwa, the Chambezi Uiver, Lake Bangweulu, . and the Luapula River, the last stages being by canoe to Kaliunda and thence by motor to the railway at Xdola. The' Duke, it will be seen, has chosen little-known and inaccessible districts.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20081, 19 October 1928, Page 13
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