BIG GAME HUNTING.

Otago Witness, Issue 3698, 27 January 1925, Page 66

BIG GAME HUNTING.

EIGHT LIONS BEFORE BREAKFAST. In the annals of quick shooting a bag of eight lions before breakfast must surely constitute a “highest on record.” The incident is related in "Ramblings of a Rolling Stone,” by Mr Gerald P. Stevens (says the l>aily Chronicle). Postma was a fine specimen of a young Dutchman, who was working as a transport rider to the Southern Uaflin Nyoro Coining back one journey about 1913, with an empty wagon and a span of oxen, lie was trekking all night along the road near the foothills of the big extinct volcano, Mount Suswa. Without being aware of the fact, lie was being followed by a family of nine lions—father, mother, and seven nearly full-rcwn cubs. When dawn came Postma ordered his two native drivers to outspan the tired and thirsty ozen for an hour’s rrst and food.

“They were grazing near the wagon when down camo the troop of lions, and before any one knew what was happening the biggest oz was killed, and the family of lions were feeding. Postma had nothing was a small sporting Lee-Metford, but the lions were too busy to take the least notice of him, and he drew a bead on each of them in turn. In this way, in as many minutes, he killed seven of them with one shot each; the eighth was badly wounded and picked up dead next day, and the old lion decamped unhurt before hie turn came.”

Is a lion to be regarded as a ‘natural hazard” on the Nairobi golf links? This question is suggested by another Btory: “It was near the golf course, which adjoins the military reserve, that a man in the King’s African Rifle® had a peculiar encounter with a lioness and her cubs. He was strolling along with a shot gun after pigeon one afternoon when he suddenly put up two lion cubs out of the long grass. Very unwisely he fired a charge of small shot into one of the cubs, never thinking for a moment of the mother. She, however, appeared to take a hand in the game, and, for S rolled him over and marled him badly. Luckly she soon left him, and except for a bandage or two he was not much th® worse.’