ENCOUNTER WITH A LION

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12502, 1 April 1909, Page 4

ENCOUNTER WITH A LION

Among the passengers who arrived* at Plymouth', recently by the .P. and Oi steamer Marmora: (says the ."London Mail" of Feb.. l3th), was Lieut G: S. Anderson, ;S lßth Hussars, who had been attached to the Intelligence Department, and who is sufiering f rom blood poisoning, the resultofa--maul-ing received "from a lion a manth or six weeks ago on ; the borders of So--malilahd and Abyssinia. # *„- - _ •"" In company with a native servant, Lieut Anderson -went out for~a day's shooting. Finding a lion a short distance off he fired ; the shot grazed the . animal's skull, slightly wounding, it.' The infuriated beast leaped upon the officer, throwing -him to the. ground, ahd bit him through rfhe Jmeff just -as' ho fired a charge, from iis dquhle-bar- _ relied sporting. -rifle through the Macl:-. -The animal continued tb claw and bite him, while Lieut Anderson; .fighting: for his life, clubbed the lion, with the ;butt end .of the rifle, ',;. All the while bloow was streaming from the wounds of the iion, which was of unusual .size. - : :*nie. native- servant, although'practically unarmed, rushed to the aid of hU injured master, and at length the anim^lv-e^austed: from the loss" of blood-*^ sluiik away, : leaving Lieiit An-,, derson almost'oyercome and m a very pi ecarious condition;: , - / Subsequently- the lion was found dead at a little' distance from the; scene of the encounter. . The injured officer was conveyed to the coast and at Aden embarked ?f br^Londoii, where ,he .mJL; batr^atetfiha hospital. y ~'"-"