The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-24

jungle. Twelve shots had been nred at
distance Of six to eight feet and yet the
animal escaped unscratched!
The man eater enters tents without the
slightest fear drawing away the stout
cord fastenngs as though they Were wool
en- yarn. In this way one of. chem last
year entered the tent of Mr. O'Hara, an
oveTseer on the railroad line. He and his
wife were sound asleep, side by side,
though il was not late ana there was
plenty of noise and hustle in the adjoining
tents. A light was burning in the tent,
and Mrs. O'Hara, suddenly awak-
ened by movement saw
lion with her husbands head in
it's mouth dragging him toward
the exit. The tent was twelve feet long
and the lion was about six feet away. The
agonised woman screamed and the lion
dropped the mans head and'began to lash
its tail and growl hercely. There was in
stanty a great unroar and firing of guns
outside and amid the din the animal
sprang outside and made off. Poor OHara
probably did not have an instante realiza-
ton of what mad happened. AS he sept.
the animals teeth sank deeply into his
temples and his throat was badly lacerated
by the claws He was dead at the door
of the tent the moment he was reached,
just after the lion had gone.
These African terrors are not all of the
lordly male sex. DR.. Ansorse, a noted
Nimrod who has won the gratitude of
number of native villages by Kidding them
of man eaters they could not kill nor scare
away, tells in the interesting book he has
just published of killing females the proof
of whose guilt was indubitable. one of
them was decidedly advanced in years and
her fortune seemingly had been hard, for
she was much emaciated 1t happens
quite frequently that the lion is despoi ed
of its prey, and sometimes the victim lives
al ba to. IA ba la F.lsE
severe lacera ton. one of DR.. Ansorge's
porters had wonderful release. for the
lion carried him off in his blanket aud the
man escaped unframed when the animal
was frightened and dropped him. Another
| porter, seized while asleep, had his thigh
badly injured, but the lion dropped him
| when the guns began to blaze The man de-
clared he was still asleep while being car
| red into the jungle, but, suddenly awak-
/ ened by the noise, he realized that a man
| eater had him. and then he threw his
! arms around the animals neck and
| screamed The camp was awake all that
night expecting the animals return, but
! it found another party mile away, stole
! one Of the pOrters and dev0ured him. and
next morning the road was seen 10 be
! slrcWn with provisions and other things
! the PARTY had dropped in its headsOng
| flight. on another occasion a man and q
woman were carried off one evening by
| the same animai ana both were rescued
| before they were fatally injured There
were ten wounds OH the man. the wors
in the thigh, and his heel bone was spin
tered and a part Of it had to be removed.
Sometimes several weeks elapse befor,
the best hunters are able TO lay low tn,
animal that has shown a stern determina
ton to live on the denilens of some par
tlcular hamlet. Ii is only a single animal
as a rule, that preys upon a group of ma
tive huts, and when It is finally Killed th'
natives may be spared a similar inhictiof
for long time. There is accordingly grea
rejoicing when the p'ague of the com
munity can go on It's raids no more. Mr.
Selous, the famous hunter, tells of exactly
similar experiences with man eaters 100
to / 200 miles further south. 1t is very for
! tunate that Ions Of this stripe are com
paratvely few in number, for If all lion
were man eaters Africa would become un
inhabltable, unless the world organized I
giganmc lion hunt to wipe the Whole spe
cies out of existence.