A Lion Hunter’s Thrilling Experience.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2103, 12 May 1898, Page 3

A Lion Hunter’s Thrilling Experience.

"Lion Hunti-g must always be taken seriously ; at least such was the op oion of the unfortunate huiitt r who tound himself prostrate, with the ‘ King of the Forest’ towtring over Shim, ana who but for the well-directecFshot from a comrade’s rifle wpuld have had no chance to recount his feelings on that occasion. ‘ It' wife a thriving experience,” said he, “ hut strange as it maiiy seem the thought that troubled me most was as to what part of me Leo would start on first.” Mr H. D. Clarke, who now resides at Hobart, gives his sensational experience as follows^: — Twelve years ago he fell from the scaflolding of a building in course of erection in Collins-street, Me bourn -, and was taken to the hospital insensible. He recovered and was sent home. The next morning he was too stiff to go to work, and resolved on resting a while. The next day he was worse, and'in-addition to feeling feverish and unwell, was seized with twitching pains in - the back whenever he attempted to straighten himself. These increased in virulence, and were accompanied with intense pains in'the head. He lost the. use of his left arm, and partially that of his left leg, as well as feeling a numbness all down the side, extending from the shoulder to the region of the abdomen. Electricity was tried amongst other things, hut without relief. So much was lie insensible to outward agencies that he could bear the application of the battery to his arm to any degree -without feeling it. To use his own expression, ‘ You could jab a neecle into'my arm and I could not feel it.’ He was given up as a hopeless paralytic by the medical fraternity of Melhourne after he had spent his last Shilling in trying to get better. He then resolved on coming over to Tasmania at the request of his relatives in the faint hope that the climate might perhaps give him relief. But years dragged on and his sufferings were without end. ‘I thought ’ said he, frequently of

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