UNEXPECTED ATTACK

Evening Star, Issue 19788, 11 February 1928, Page 15

UNEXPECTED ATTACK

LEOPARDS AND HUNTING PARTY. A remarkable hunting story comes from the Garhwal district (United Provinces) of India. A party of ladies and gentlemen set out for a day’s sport among the lesser game of iho region. They were riding leisurely along one of the many passes which abound in the locality with never a thought of danger. Chatting and laughing with each other, they were most unconcerned and unsuspecting. Suddenly their horses snorted with fear. At this particular spot tho rocks were overhung with trees and bushes, and out of these on to the unsuspecting cavalcado sprang half a dozm fullgrown leopards. Tho frantic movements of the horses led to several of the leopards nvi.-.nng their mark, and also gave the men of the party a chance to turn their weapons upon tbe enraged animals, who, however, were only momentarily deterred from the attack. Tho ladies of the party got quickly out of the danger zone, their thoroughly terrified horses taking good care of that. . Eventually tho men drove off the leopards after killing four of them, and when casualties were counted it was lonnd that on© had been so dreadfully mauled that it had to bo shot, and its rider, who had been thrown by the force with wdiich the leopard struck him in its leap, had a broken shoulder. The party eventually reformed and made their way back to Serinagur, where the injured man was left in hospital and the rest of the party returned to their respective homes.