The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-16
FIGHT FOR LIFE
WITH L|ONESS
Transport Agent Grasps Beasts
Tongue During Battle, But Is
Eventually Killed.
HUNTERS TELL WEIRD TALES
One Explains Simple Method OF
Making Animals Sneeze Themselves
to Death-Story About the
Roosevelt Expedition.

London.-From Nairobi, East Africa
says writer In the London Daily
Mail, comes thrilling story of the
death of transport agent named
Hopper, who, pinned down by
lioness he had wounded, made
desperate bid for victory by putting
both hands into the animals mouth
and gripping its tongue.
Africa is paradise for the lion
hunter and the literature Of the chase
is almost endless. Not all lion
hunters are strictly truthful, however.
"For instance. in a remote African
village" says the writer, II once came
across a deeply tanned prospector-
hunter. who swore that his favorite
method of hunting lions was to get the
animals to sneeze themselves to death.
1T is quite simple lie said. In
lion country you build little arch Of
stone. just big enough to allow the
lion to enter with comfort. But you
must take care to build It of jagged
stones and TO see that the center stone
Of the arch is q particularly jagged
one.
"'Then you go out and shoot zebra
or some other tOOthsOme creature from
the lions point of view. You drag the
corpse under the arch, pepper 1t
heavily and then retire to your tent
to sleep.
sneezes Self to Death.
"'In the night the lion comes,
creeps under the arch to his feast. gets
his nose filled with pepper, and has an
Overpowerlng inclination to sneeZe. He
sneeZes, and in the act throws up his
head and dashes his brains out on the
center jagged stone Of your arch
81 do not vOuch for the truth Of
that story"
A party of men trekking in Rhodesia
In an OK wagon heard Il commOtiOn
one night, among their tethered oxen,
and rushing toward the spot pumped
about dozen shots into the heaving
mass from distance of, say, forty
yards.
The mass diminished, and they adj
vanced to find one Of their oxen hor-
Truly lIuultu ny iiOIS.
They "dosed" the corpse with strych-
nine and retired to their camp. They
heard the lions busy at the carcass
all night, and in the morning they
found that the dead OK had practically
disappeared, but lying near the spot
were five full grown iions-two males
and three females-all poisoned.
That was very considerable bag
got by illegitimate means, but here
is the true story of better bag got
legitimately. Incidentally, ii is very
interesting example of spOrtsmen's
luck:
When the late President Roosevelt
and his son Kermit went to British
East Africa, in 1909. they were ac-
companied on their hunting trip by
the late Il. G. SelOus, one of the
greatest hunters that ever lived.
RooseveIts Luck.
Selous was particularly anxious to
secure a specimen of the East African
black-maned lion, but on the whole
trip he never even got shot Mt one.
But Theodore Roosevelt got three and
Kermit Roosevelt eight-and neither
of them had ever been on an African
game hunting expedition before
Some years ago party Of Greeks
trekking through Portuguese Zambesia
were followed for days by guant old
lion, who took one Of their donkeys
each night until only one of the whole
team was left.
This donkey the terrified Greeks
were determined to retain at all costs
When they made their camp that
night they built around 1t a great
stockade Of bushes and thorns, and in
the center of it they tethered the sole
surviving donkey to their tent pole.
But notwithstanding these precau-
lions that night the DertinaciOus old