The New York herald., 1921-08-17
How to Kill a Lion.
Stories from the Hunting Fields Of
East Africa.

BIG Game Hunter in London Daily Mail.
From Nairobi, British East Africa.
comes a thrilling story or the death OF
a transport agent named Hopper who,
pinned down by a lioness he had
wounded. made desperate bid for VIC
tory by putting both his hands into the
animars 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
arc strictly truthful. however.
For instance. in a remote African viii
lage l once came across deeply tanned
prospector-hunter. who swore that his
favorite method of hunting lions was to
get the animals to sneeze themselves to
de ath
1T is quito simple" he said. 'In lion
country you build a little arch OF stone,
Just big enough to allow the lion to
en ter with comfort. But you must take
care to build 1t of jagged stones and
to sec that the centre stone of the arch
is particularly jagged one.
Then you go out and shoot n zebra
or some other toothsome creature from
the lions point of view. You drag the
corpse under the arch, pepper it heav-
lily and then retire to your tent to sleep.
In the night the lion comes, creeps
under the arch to his feast. gets his
nose filed with pepper and has an over
powering inclination to sneeze. He
sneezes and in the act throws up his
head and dashes his brains out on the
centre Jagged stone Of your arch"
| do not vouch for the truth of that
story. but here is one for which / can.
A party of men trekking In Rhodesia
in an OK wagon heard a commotion one
night among their tethered oxen. and
rushing toward the spot pumped about
a dozen shots into the heaving mass
from n distance Of, say. forty yards.
The mass diminished and they ad-
vanced to find one of their oxen horri-
bly, mauled by lions.
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 dis
appeared, but lying near the spot were
five full grown lions-two males and
three females--all poisoned.
That was a very considerable bag got
by illegitimate means, but here is the
true story of a better bag got legiti-
nately. Incidentally 1t is q very inter-
esting example of sportsmens luck.
When the late President Roosevelt
and his son Kermit went 10 British East
Africa, in 1909, they were accompanied
on their hunting trip by the late r. G.
Selous, one OF the greatest hunters that
aver lived.
Selous wss particularly anxious to Sc
cure specimen of the East African
black named lion, but on the whole trip
he never even got a shot az one. But
Theodore Roosevelt got three and Ker-
nit Roosevelt eight-and neither OF
them had ever been on an African game
hunting expedition before
Some years ago a party Of Greeks
tekking through Portuguese zambesla
were followed for days by gaunt old
lien. who took ono OF their doskeys 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 II n great stock
ade of bushes and thorns and In the
centre of 1t they tethered the sole sur
viving donkey to their tentpole. But.
Notwithstanding these precautions. that
night the pertinacious old lion sot the
last donkey.