TRAPPING LIONS
A SNARE OF STEEL WIRE. One of the most remarkable clashes with lions ever reported from the low country in South Africa occurred recently when natives in the eastern portion of the Mamitwa location caught four fully-grown lions in steel wire traps. Three of them were killed with assegais and knobkerries, but the fourth, a large black-maned male, managed to break the wires. He charged his assailants. and after having mauled one of them severely, escaped into the bush. The injured native was admitted to the Leydsdorp Hospital in a serious condition. The natives in that part of the lowveld had been threatened by the lions for some time. The lions scared their cattle at night to such an extent that the cattle stampeded and jumped the kraal fence, after which the lions killed them at random. The natives, who have no rifles, then made snares of strong steel wire and set them in the known paths of the raiders. Although on several occasions other animals and even game were caught in such snares, this is the first 1 time that a pride of lions is reported to mave met their end in this way.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1940, Page 11
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