Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-06-09
LION HUNTING IN soaALlLAND
Rather Lively Experience ola British
Lion Hunter.


Lion Hunter.
Mr.. Inverarity, q member of the
Bombay bar and one OF the most dis.
tinguished Of Indian shikaris, lately
contributed to the Bombay Natural
History society a paper on the nam.
malta OF somali land, where he went
on a shooting expedition last year.
Referring to lion shooting, he says it
ls q very fascinating pursuit if conduct.
ed in the proper manner, which is to
tract the animal to where he is lying.
At the end OF the track, which may
last for several hours, the eyes sud.
denly fall on lion sitting in q dense
gloom of a bueh a few feet of, or some.
times it leads into thicket of thorns
that cannot be penetrated, when the
best plan is to set fire to it and stand
at the other end.
Mr.. Inverarity says he only once
found one sitting in the open-al ioness
with a full grown cub. They were sit
ting on the open sand under a small
thorn tree. 60 we'll does their color
harmonic with their surroundings
That be tracked it within four yards
OF them without seeing them, and
would not have seen them then ifthev
had not got up. On another occasion
his men pointed to a lioness he was
tracking crouching in the grass g. few
yards of, but, although he looked, he
could not see her until she moved her
ears. Like every other animal, the
lion tries to avoid men until wounded,
and is only in exceptional cases of
there being young ones to guard or
from establishment at seeing the hunt.
ers SO close to them that they charge
VIXEN being tracked.
Mr.. 1nverarity was never, says the
London Times, charged by an un.
wounded one. they charge with the
same coughing roar that tiger does,
ground, not bounding in the air, as
represented in pictures; their ears are
pressed close to the head, giving them
the comical appearance OF being with.
out ears. He says: $50 large an ami
NAL coming at full speed against you
OF course knocks you off your legs.
The claws and teeth entering the flesh
do not hurt so much as you would
think. The only really painful part
OF the business is the squeezing given
by the jaws on the bone. l felt none
OF the dreamy stupor Livingstone de-
scribes, but, on the contrary, felt as
usual. | adopted the course of lying
quite still, which, believe, is the best
thing one can do, as you are quite
helpless with d heavy animal on you,
and they are inclined to make grab
at anything that moves, and the few.
er bites you can get off with the bet
ter.
"All the wounds are centers of in.
f1ammation and blood poisoning and
the more you get the less chance you
have. The power OF the lions laws
may be inferred from the fact that the
lioness that seized me, althoughit had
a broken jaw, scored deep grooves in
the barrels OF my rifle with her teeth.
Someclaw wounds were mere scratch
es, which attribute to the fact that
they clutch at the surface ofyour coat,
thinking it is all solid underneath
and 80 reach the flesh pretty late. In
fact, my coat was torn in some places
without any corresponding wound be.
meath. never felt heelightest shock.
Tigers and panthers, as rule, I'M.
mediately leave anyone they seize in
a charge, but this lioness, having left
me, went few yards and roared at
my men, returned, and stood over me
growing, and then bit my arm. l got
no bites the first 60 off as she was oc.
Cupied in biting nv rifle"