STALKED BY FIFTEEN LIONS
1 A ' Central News" !oi<>gram from / Cape- Town giv® detail.; ot Mm terriblo i fate which, befell a Greck trader named ■ Jsatarns w-hij.o on a recent jourir&y from •• Bajotse, -Aecoiiipanied only by "a,, few : natives, Sataras was travelling in ■■chargo of soma cattle, and one night when they were iHj-eam'.pj about 40 juries from Sesheko, 15 lion's aiid lionesses appeared, .j out of the scrub and carried .oft one. of f tlio csen. 'file natives Urged Sata-ras io. I remain in camp, but he was anxious to .overtake another herd of catti.o which Was travellingm charge'of a man nanipcl Laurie Kerr. All day this lions stalked, ■the cattle, and darkness overtaking tho party Sntarns fell a victim to them, The terrified natives rap on to Kerr's camp, but when he returned nothing but a -, few boiics remained to toll of the • tragedy.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2138, 2 May 1914, Page 6
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146STALKED BY FIFTEEN LIONS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2138, 2 May 1914, Page 6
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