The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-11-02
FIGHT FOR LIFE
WITH L|0NESS
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 a writer in the London Daily
Mail, comes thrilling story Of the
death Of a transport agent named
Hopper, who, pinned down by a
lioness he had wounded, made
desperate bid for victory by putting
both hands into the animals mouth
and gripping its tongue.
Africa is a 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 4 remote African
village" says the writer, 81 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.
"It is quite SIMPLE he said. In
lion country you build a 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 particularly jagged
one.
"'Then you 60 out and shoot zebra
or some other toothsome creature from
the lions point of view. You drag the
corpse under the arch, pepper it
=
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 ali
overpowering inclination to sneeze. He
sneezes, and in the act throws up his
head and dashes his brains out Oh 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 a commotion
one night among their tethered oxen,
and rushing toward the spot pumped
about a dozen shots into the heaving
mass from a distance of, say, forty
yards.
The mass diminished, and they ad-
vanced to find one Of their oxen hor,
ribly nauled 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
disappeared, but lying near the spot
were five full grown iions-two males
and three females-all poisoned.
That was a very considerable bag.
got by illegitimate means, but here
is the true story Of better bag got
legitimately. incidentally, 1t is very
example Of sportsnen'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 F. G.. Selous. one Of the
greatest hunters that ever lived.
RooseveIt's Luck.
Selous was particularly anxious to
Sc q specimen of the East African
black named lion, but on the whole
trim he never even got shot at 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
trel;kinc through Portuguese Zambesia
were followed for days by a 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
we're determined to retain at all costs.
When they made their camp that
ni-ht they built around it great
Stockade of bushes and thorns. and In
.he center Of it they tetherch the sole
surviving donkey to their tent pole.
R,;t notwithstanding these precau-
rions that night the pertinacioEs old
licn pot thp last donkey