A Lion Hunter’s Thrilling Experience.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2103, 14 May 1898, Page 3

A Lion Hunter’s Thrilling Experience.

Lion Hunting must always be taken seriously j at mast such was the opinion of the unfortunate hunter who found himself prostrate, with the * King of the Forest ’ towering-over him, and who but. for the well-directed shot from a comrade’s rifle would have had no chance to recount his feelings on that occasion. **lt was a thril ing ex perience,” said he, “ but strange as it many seem the thought that troubled me most was as to what part of me Leo would start ou first.” Mr H. D. Clarke, who now resides at Hobart, gives his sensational experience as Twelve years ago he fell from the scaffolding of a building in course of erection in Collins-strcet, Melbourne, and was taken to the hospital, insensible. He recovered and was sent home. The next morning he was ton 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 immbness all dotfn the side, extending from the shoulder to the region of the abdomen. Electricity was tried amongst other things, but without relief. So much was he 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, ‘Yon could jab a neeclo into my arm and I could n >t feel it.’ He was given up as a hopeless paralytic by the medical fraternity of Melbourne 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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