MAULED BY A LION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 1 February 1907, Page 4

MAULED BY A LION.

lvVUt<'l- AgeilcV llil-i received intelligence iroin Major IWelj Bolton's expedition, which 1.-ft two years ■V-'o on ii .journey from tin- Nile jo the Zambesi. On October ]s,h. Um ••xplo.er. wno ,vil|, his wife i,. 1(1 piv . nously ~,,,,1 Sl . vi . rili months jn ' the Great rorest, had reached a point »<>iith of Like Albert Edward. While on the hanks of the Sassn, Major Coltoil hail a hairbreadth escape' from a lion which he had wounded. An hour "'"I « >wlf alter the Least 1r.i.l he..,, ijll.it. when it „- ils ;| „|„ tl| . l( . t||l , lion was too disak'ed to move, the, party approach-.,! the animal. The hit;,- - ;; .l,h„h- ~,r,! 1K u„ a,„l sei.,l Major Cotton, fastening Ms claws in Inn llesh. ami endeavoring to .vt at bis head. Two Wagaiida. native i-iisheil up to tiie lion, an,! wiiiie one neat it with a heavy stick the other slashed it with a hippo-hide whip V third native then shot it throu.r:, t„e heart. Major Cotton was carefully tended to liyCaplaii, Rastien. chief of the Comro Frontier Survey, and had recovered when the news left. He and Mrs Cotton were contiimiii" their journey south. c