FIGHT FOR LIFE WITH LIONESS
Transport Agent Grasps Beast's 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 a thrilling story of the death of a Kloppor, who, because he had desperate bid for victory by putting both hands into the animal's mouth and gripping its tongue.
Africa is a paradise for the lion hunter and the literature of the chase is almost endless. Not hunters are strictly truthful, however.
"For instance, in a remote African village," says the writer, "I once came across a deeply tanned prospector hunter, who swore that his favorite method of limiting lions was to get the animals to sneeze themselves to death.
" 'It is quite simple,' he said. 'In my 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 a particularly jagged one.
transport agent named pinned down by a wounded, made a lion.
" 'Then you go out and shoot a zebra or some other toothsome creature from the lion's point of view. You drag the corpse under the neck, pepper it heavily and then retire to your tent to sleep.
Sneezes Self to Death. 