KRUGER NATIONAL PARK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 June 1938, Page 10

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK

TRANSVAAL’S GREAT GAME RESERVE. LION ATTACKS TWO NATIVE WOMEN. Since the opening of the Kruger National Park, the great game reserve in the Transvaal, a lion had never been known to attack a European there, though visitors approach them quite closely in their cars and obtain astonishing photographs of them. But recently a lion that lay waiting at a water hole near Skukuza, the big rest camp in the centre of the park, sprang upon two native women, killing one outright and badly mauling the other. The two women were on their way from a beer drink and were walking along a narrow, winding footpath between banks ><>f tall grass. Both women were knocked sprawling as the lion bounded upon them. Seizing one of the women in its jaws, the lion made for a clump of bushes 100 yards away. The other woman struggled to her feet and ran screaming back along the path. Attracted by the movement of the fleeing figure, the lion dropped his first victim and gave chase. In a few bounds he overtook the woman, seized her by the shoulder and dragged her to the ground.

A group of natives who came on the scene at this moment saw the lion drop the second native woman and make off into the bush.