SURPRISE FOR HUNTERS.
PRIEST AND HIS CATS. Haute Savoic is the mountainous region in Franco in which Alont Blanc stands. However wild parts of it may be, a tourist out for his daily walk does not expect to meet a panther, but this is what happened to five hunters from Thonon, on Lake Geneva. The men had the surprise of their lives on seeing a huge wild cat on the path in front of them. They were fortunate in killing it. A naturalist recognised it as an ocelot, a sort of American panther. It was not for some days that it was known that a Swiss priest had lost such an animal. The training and breeding of various'kinds of cats 'was his passion and his hobby. In procuring an ocelot he was widening the scope of his studies, but the animal was too strong, and mad« itg escap*. 1 j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21118, 27 February 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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