The New York herald., 1921-12-29
GIRL ARRIVES AFTER
2 YEARS IN JUNGLES
Norma, Z, Daughter of Lion
Tanner III. s. Snow, Returns
From Africa.

Norma. daughter of the lion tanner.
arrived yesterday by the White Star
liner Olympic, quite as guileless as when
she started across the Atlantic three
Christmases ago (she measures time by
Santa Claus calendar. being merely y,
to cover most all OF African jungleland
with her stalwart daddy. X. S. Snow;
her mother. Mrs. Daisy Snow, and her
big brother. Sidney, whose speciality Is
shooting wild creatures with a camera
about the same moment the father
brings them down with his rifle.
Norma was the only little person
aboard who had the supreme faith to
hang up her stocking in the ships saloon
on Christmas Eve. confident that Santa
Claus would leave her something more
interesting than wild animals. She pre-
ferred doll or a teddy bear. and she
got the doll. The ship news reporters
who came up from Quarantine on the
Olympic wanted to see and talk with
her father, who did not seem to be
get-at-able. Stewards referred to Norma
as the liaison officer Of the family. She
was found romping on the promenade
deck.
After covering more than $4,000 miles,
chiefly in tropical Africa. and crossing
the equator three times, the natural
olive complexion of Norma is somewhat
tanned. She volunteered 20 show the
hunters of the great hunter where he
was, remarking, MY daddy's up In the
lion cage taking the cubs out and put
ting them In a crate TO take them to
California"
She led the way to the after boat
deck abaft the funnel, and there the
big man, he is more than six feet tall,
said few things in q matter of fact
way about his adventures of two years
in all the Africas, East, West and other
ways. where there was any chance OF
getting by rife. camera or trap, speci-
mems Of the tropical wilda The inter-
view was supervised by Norma, who was
proud TO show several pictures OF her.
self on an elephant and a hippo. togged
out In hunting costume, holding a little
rife. She admitted that she never real
ly fired the rifle, but was going to when
she grew up.
Albert Smith, assistant butcher OF che
liner, was also with the Shows. He
had been asked to assist Mr.. Snow in
transferring the two lion cubs. now
nine months old. big as Newfoundland
dogs. and wild as in their native lairs,
from the cage to the crates.
The trick was done before the re-
porters got to the top deck, and Albert
said he would not want to help In that
sort of game again, showing several
lacerations on his left hand. made by
the claw of one of the cubs He said
the cub lunged out like jungle Car
pentler when he reached for her and
ciawed him. Mr.. Snow just thrust
his powerful right hand up against the
throat Of each snarling and splitting cat
and dragged il from the cage in Jiffy.
That was the way to handle them he
said.
The cubs were not bit gentler when
the mighty hunter captured them in
Rritish East Africa, after killing their
mother and her mate. The fiercer one
hi. clean through the wrist of Mr. Snow.
leaving bright scar that will last
through life. Mr.. Snow wore other
things than scars, including fine
leopard skin for collar. The leopard
was charging when shot. and Sidney
with his camera, caught him in the act
That is one of the best pictures of the
Shows. Another shows a hippopotamus
a few seconds before he fell while head
ing for the hunter.
The most startling adventure of the
$4,000 mile journey through the wllds.
made in Fords, was in British East
Africa The hunter and his son were
alone in the automobile when big
lioness sprang into the tonneau. She
may have thought fivvers were good to
eat. She had little time to think much
more after she struck the tonneau, as a
bullet put her to sleep.
While father and son were returning
from a water hole forty miles from their
hut, Mrs. Snow and Norma, who had
been left there. were surrounded by a
procession of wild animals attracted by
the odor of the flesh of dead creatures
near the hut. Just as the flivver hove In
sight of the hut a lion charged toward
It. He fell with bullet through his
heart before he got far