The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-08-28
GAME WORTH HUNTING
STEWART EDWARD WHITE TELLS
OF KILLING OF IMMENSE LION.
Five WelI-Placed Shots Needed to Fin
ish the Jungle Monareh-Its Meas
urements Only a Few Inches
Under the Record.

Those who have been ION safari'
hunting big game In East Africa-and
their number must now amount to
thousands--will read with great inter
est Stewart Edward Whites modestly
told story Of hunting journey from
Mombasa through the Shimba hills,
Nairobi, Kapiti, the Tsavo river and
Masailand. Mr.. White had the good
fortune to shoot almost a record big
lion. He thus describes the incident:
We had proceeded in this fashion
for about a mile, when suddenly, and
most Unexpectedly, the biggest lion
ever saw leaped straight up from a
bush rs yards in front of me, and with
a tremendous roar vanished behind an
other bush.
p l had just time to throw up the .405
shotgun fashion and let drive a snap
shot. Clifford Hill, who was ten yards
to my right, saw the fur fly, and we
all heard the snarl as the bullet hit.
Naturally we expected an instant
charge, but, as things turned out, 1t
was evident the lion had not seen us
at all. He had leaped at the sight of
our men and horses on the skyline,
and when the bullet hit him he must
have ascribed it to them. At any rate,
he began to circle through the tangled
vines in their direction.
From their elevation they could fol
low his movements. At once they set
up bowls of terror and appeals for
help Some began frantically to run
back and forth None of them tried
to run away; there was nowhere tc
go! The only thing that saved them
was the thick and spiky character Of
the cover. The lion, instead of charg-
ing straight and fast, was picking an
easy way.
We tore directly up hill as fast as
we were able, leaping from rock to
rock and thrusting recklessly through
the tangle. About halfway up jumped
to the top of high, cenical rock, and
thence by good luck caught sight of
the lions great yellow head advancing
steadily about so yards away.
1 took as good sight as 7 could
and pulled trigger. The recoil knocked
me clear off the bowlder, but as fell l
saw his tail go up and knew that l
had hit At once Clifford Hill and ]
jumped up on the rock again, but
the lion had moved out of sight. We
all Unanswered rapidly for position.
Again luck was with me, for again
1 saw his great head, the name stand
ing out all around it; and for the
second time l planted a heavy bullet
square in his chest.
This stopped his advance; he lay
down. His head was up and his eyes
glared, as he uttered the most rever-
berating and magnificent roars and
growls The dogs leaped and barked
around him.
We came quite close and l planted
my fourth bullet in his shoulder. Even
this was not enough. 1t took fifth
in the same place to finish him.,
The bowls from the hilltop ceased
All gathered to marvel at the lions
immense size He measured three
feet nine inches at the shoulder and
nine feet eleven inches between
stakes or ten feet eleven inches along
contour. This is only five inches un.
der record.
We weighed him piecemeal, after a
fashion, and put him between $50
pounds and 600 pounds.