BABY GIRL TARZAN.

Otaki Mail, 6 January 1922, Page 4

BABY GIRL TARZAN.

SUCKLED BY A LIONESS. A family.secret for many years, how Mrs Magdalene McCabe, us a child. was suckled by a lioness, has been re voaled at Johannesburg, upon her recent, death there. Mrs McCabe, the daughter of Mr F. Swart, who spent his time with his wife hunting in the wilder parts of South Africa, was born during a trek through Colesburg. Mr McCabe says that one morning, near the Crocodile River, Magdalene, who was three, was told to go down to the water where her mother was washing. Five minutes later the girl disappeared. After the distracted parents had searched eight days for her, two wizened bushmen walked into the camp and snid to Mr Swart, "White man, bring guns. We have found your child." The bushmen took Mr Swart along the river's banks for about three miles and then they pointed out. a tiny figure being suckled with two lion cubs by a lioness. The hunter fired a shot in the air, and the lions fled, leaving the little girl, her clothes torn arid her body badly scratched, but otherwise unharmed. When Magdalene was ten sho was found by her father near the Limpopo Kivcr flinging pebbles at two lions on the opposite bank. She said to her father, "There are the big dogs that carried me across the river."