LADY ATTACKED BY AN EAGLE.
A Scottish correspondent reports that Miss Mott, daughter of a London barrister, has had an adventure of an tinusual kind while on a visit to friends in the Island of Mull. She left her friends, who were fishing in Minnish Loch, to climb alone a neighbouring rocky height. When some way up she saw above her a large erne, or white-tailed eagle; but thinking it would fly away at her approach she paid no heed to it. The bird, however, ruffled its feathers and hovered about a yard over her head, uttering angry screams. Miss Mott struck at it with her walking stick, and then beat a retreat. The eagle at fust pursued her, but as she drew near her friends, it flew away. It is supposed that its nest or some prey was near the spot where Miss Mott encountered it. She was fortunate in escaping as she did, for an enraged eagle is ai dangerous creature, and she was armed only with a stick.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 5 July 1901, Page 3
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171LADY ATTACKED BY AN EAGLE. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 5 July 1901, Page 3
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