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Show I YOUTH RAMMED ARM INTO LION'S THROAT 4 ' " " f i , Beast Chewed Hand While Another Used a Hatchet. - - , v i The Furlowi Arabs, dwelling along i the southeastern border of the Sahara, t may have many fallings, tut lack of fcouruge cannot be counted among them. ( One morning an oldUh man walked ;'luto my olllce and aald that a llon and a lioness were molesting the peace of his villuge, about fifteen, miles away. He wished me to come and destroy the s beasts. I promised to go the following ;Vluy, but unfortunately the Investigation Investiga-tion of a ease of murder occupied my (attention and; I could. not go. j The day after, the old man came before be-fore me, dangling at the end of a piece ,of rope what I first thought was a skin of honey, but a second glance showed it Waa the head of , the lioness. He told a story which I corroborated the sumo ,'afternoon When I went to the village to dress the wounds of the chief actors. '" Three boya f about ' fifteen or sixteen .year, old no ,Aruh. knows his exact 'age, but calculates by the time of some striking ' Incident went out to their ..Held eueh Cfifrylng a small throwing 'npear, and they saw the lion and bla ;mate under ,a bush. The Urst lad threw his spear and missed, and the ;,quarry bounded oft under another 'bush. The next hoy hurled his spear and also missed. A third spear hurtled through the air from the arm of the 'youngest lad and struck the lioness In ,the side. She Immediately turned and,' .with one spring, seized the thrower round the shoulders, threw him to the 'ground, and began gnawing at hla neck. 1Ope,,ot,t1he .boys, took, off the long t turiuent he was wearing, bound It swiftly around his arm and, grasping the animal's left ear with his left ,Wnd, drove his right arm, down her ihroat. As her teeth; closed on his arm, the third Arab ' picked up his (Small hatchet and rained blows on the head of the lioness until she fell dead at their feet.; ' ; , Y I The boys soon recovered from their .wounds, and for' weeks afterwards all the girls of the village wore little pieces of Hon meat In their hair as a tribute to the prowess of the young Ipien. MaJ. Edward Keith Roach In the .National Geographic Magazine. r . . . |