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BIG-GAME PHOTOGRAPHER "MANY LIVES AS CAT" Sixty-five-year-old Cherry Ifcartoa, big-game photographer ami author, returned to England after six men in Africa, convinced that lie has many lives as n cat. Four times lie faced death. He in a car when, travelling across a v road at 50 miles an _ hour, it JJ". smashed into by a native-driven .% Standing unarmed in the hack. ot an open car ho was charged by an miuri ated two-ton rhinoceros A small boat in which he and Air?Kearton were sleeping was in tne middle of a'fight between a herd or elephants and some lions who » ei hunting an elephant calf . . And near Lake Naivasha his party t two cars were trapped in a suitably named Hell's Gate—with bush fire cutting off their. retreat ana fire-maddened lions on all sides or the • And at no time was Mr. carrying any other weapon hnn camera. .• 0 "I've never carried a gun Mr. Kearton told the Sunday (<hronM, 1 London.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23073, 25 June 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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