MORPHIA FOR LION
STRANGE TALE FROM AFRICA. LONDON, September 2b. “Medicine for out-patient,. 7/6, is the innocent entry in the logbook by ’a nUrse of the Universities’ Mission Nyassaiand, which enabled the slaughter of a ■ inhn-eating lion. The nurse, making a round of the villages ,found one greatly distressed owing to a lion having taken up quarters in the vicinity and killed three people. As firearms were not available, she persuaded the villagers to kill an ox, and inserted sufficient morphia in’ it to overcome five men. The lion found tl'e carcase, on which it gorged,. Helpless under the influence of the drug, it became an easy victim to the natives j spears. j
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1931, Page 6
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114MORPHIA FOR LION Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1931, Page 6
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