LIFE STORY OF THE DUKE … On his first safari the Duke, who was attended by a party of only about 30, secured 36 kinds of various game in 17 days. One of his trophies was a magnificent specimen of an African lioness. It cost him a great deal of arduous toiling through the bush country and the kill was not without its thrill. The Duke and his equerry had stalked their quarry to a water hole and the lioness was about to spring when the Duke fired and killed her. An American paper describing this incident, in the typical picturesque journalese of the United States, told how the Duke had come within an ace of losing his Royal life in the hungry jaws of a “tiger.” It said that he fired, at the last second, almost into the mouth of the “striped terror of the jungle.” The Duke would be a very proud man indeed if he were able to say that he had brought down a tiger in Africa. The Daily News, 1934 The invitation was presented to Rowland at breakfast, with the information that the servant who delivered it was waiting for an answer.
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