The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1921-11-10
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 Nalrobi, East Africa,
says II writer in the London Daily
Mail, comes a thrilling story Of the
death of transport agent named
Hopper, who, pinned down by
lioness he had wounded, made q
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 q 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 he said In
lion country YOU build little arch Of
stone, just big enough to allow the
Hon to enter with comfort But you
must take care to build 1t Of Jagged
stones and to see that the center stone
"f the arch is 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 II
heavily and then retire to your tent
to sleep.
Sneezes Self to Death.
In the night the lion comes,
crecpS under the arch TO his feast, gets
his nose filed with pepper, and has an
orerpowcrng inclination to sneeze He
sneeZcS, 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 trckking i'm Rhodesia
ip 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 ad-
vanced To find one of their oxen hor-
ribly mauled by lions.
They "doscd" 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 ions-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 a very
interesting example Of sportsmen's
IucE:
When the late President Roosevelt
and his con Kermit went to British
East Africa, in 1909 they were ac-
compan!ed 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
50 - n specimen of the East African
black named lion. but on the whole
trip he never even got shot at one.
But Theodore Roosevelt got three and
Kermit Roosevelt cight-and neither
of them had ever been on an African
game hunting expedition before
Some years ago n rarty of Greeks
trekking through Portuguese Zambesia
were followed for days by guant old
lion. who took one Cf 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 It great
stockade Of bushes and thorns. and In
the center Of it they tethered tie sole
surviving donkey to their tent pole.
But Notwithstanding these precau
lions. that night the pertinacious old
lion got the last donkey.