A SLAYER OF LIONS

Evening Star, Issue 19798, 23 February 1928, Page 5

A SLAYER OF LIONS

EIGHTY IK THREE MONTHS Mr J. A. Hunter, who was engaged by the Game Department to kill lions and other big game in the Masai Re- ’ serve, has returned to Nairobi, having killed eighty lions and ten leopards I in three months, thus ending a menace to life and property in the Reserve. The work involved many dangerous situations, including charges by rhinoceros, buffalo, and' elephant, and two natives were mauled in the course of the operations. The most interesting feature of the story is that Mr Hunter was assisted by a number of Masai armed with short spears, which, however, were found to l)e useless. The District Officer at Kajiado called upon the Masai to produce fifteen men who were not afraid of lions, whereon the Masai offered to do so if equipped with their long, broad-bladed spears and big shields, which had been taken from them as part of the Government’s ' policy of pacification. Thus armed they proved their courage, attacking lions daringly single handed.;