Cedar Inspector’s Battle for Life in a Michigan Swamp.
A cedar inspecter in one of Robert Rae’s camps at Hillman, Mich., started for camp at a late hour. In a lonely swamp, about one mile from camp, he was attacked by seven lynxes.
Having nothing with which to defend himself, his first thought was to climb a tree, not knowing that lynxes were experts in that line. But as fast as the animals came up he knocked them off by a heavy limb he had broken from the tree. His shouts, together with the wails of the lynxes, brought aid from the camp.
One of the rescuers shot two of the lynxes before they showed signs of leaving the tree. One measured five feet eleven inchds in length. Many of the old hunters are doing a big business trapping the animals, the bounty and fur well worth the trouble.
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