The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-12

DIV of Indian corn, which they grind,
and, after adding little water, cook
over their own fires into sort OF bis
cult. The white men have negro women
cooks, and live luxuriousiy. They have
eggs, coffee, and Indian corn biscuit for
with broiled chicken for a
relish whenever they want one, for fowls
are very plenty. For dinner, maize
and beef or mutton, very tough and
very stringy. A "good-conditioned OK"
can be bought for 81, and "good-eat-
ing goat" for so cents. A little garden
truck, which they grow themselves, and
onions, which they raise in great guam
titles, are also eaten. No dinner would
be complete without plenty of onions,
and they are as much in order at either
of the other meals, or, indeed, at any
time in the day when one feels hungry.
Supper is similar to breakfast, and after
that the German hunters inseparable
evening friend, his long-stemmed, china
bowled, fragrant pipe. The interior OF
their hut would interest New York art
list. Elephant tusks, lion skins, leopard
skins, hunting hats and coats, and long
topped boots, rifles, pistols, bright-col-
ored flannel shirts, and bits of harness
lie scattered about in dire confusion;
but in a safe place, where it cannot pos
sibly be distgured, the only tenderly-
used thing within the four strong walls,
a first-class full-sized silver-keyed Ger
man accordion. They tell that in the
long winter evenings, after the perils
and labors of the hunt, Lohse plays on
it divinely, while others puff out great
clouds of smoke and dreamily think of
the Fatherland.
The clearing is on the bank of little
river called the Settet, branch of the
Nile, and is inclosed by high and thick
hedge made of native thorn. At night
after the animals have been fed, watered
and housed or tethered, great fires are
built at irregular intervals around the
grounds to scare off wild animals, and
watch is set. BY 10 o'clock all others
are in bed, with the dismal howl of the
hyena, the roar of the lion and the shrill
shrek of the wildcat to disturb their
dreams of wives and sweethearts. The
myriads of gnats, flies and mosquitoes
are for time great annoyance to the
hunters, and sort of amusement for the
natives, who, with their black hides COW
cred thick with grease, do not mind them,
but enjoy the contortions of their white
companions. By IL o'clock all are
asleep, and the camp is still until about
3 in the morning, when everybody is
astir again, and the business of the day
is begun. The native hunters form in
parties of about twenty, each with a
white leader, and start off III different
directions, while those who are left in
camp occupy themselves in cleaning up,
caring for the beasts, making boxes for
transportation and cages for the expected
new captures.
In getting wild animals the rule is to
kill the old ones and secure the young;
for after any of the beasts have grown
old enough to become accustomed to the
free life of the woods, and to hunt their
own food, they are treacherous, and
worth little for purposes of exhibition.
Paul Luhn, one of Reiche Brothers
men, who has lately returned from At
RIGA with rare birds and animals, tells
interesting stories of the perils of the
hunt. He says: "The hon is fierce
creature, and the ioness, when protect
ing her young, very much worse but
from long practice we know just how to
go after them. A good rifle, firm hands
and steady eyes, and we can soon topple
the old fellow over. The old lady may
take little longer, but in the end we
are sure to kill her, and then it is nc
trouble to pick up and secure the cub.
We try TO get these little fellows when
they are about three or four weeks old.
They are then like young puppies, easily
managed, and soon learn to know then
keepers. Leopards, tigers and all that
kind of animals we get in the same way
and at about The same age. Baby ele.
plants are hard to get, and the hunt is
very dangerous. The old ones seem to
know instinctively when we are after
their young, and their rage is something
terrible. The trumpeting of the parents
can be heard for long distance, and
quickly alarms the whole herd. The
rifle is comparatively useless, and trying
to approach them particularly hazardous
yet it has to be done. First, we try
to distract the attention of the female
from her offspring. Then native
creeps cautiously up from behind, and,
with one cut of a heavy, broad-bladed
knife, sewers the tendons of her hind
feet. She is then disabled, cannot walk
and soon falls to the ground. We
promptly kill her, secure the ivory, and
capture the little one. OF course we
occasionally have native or two killed
in this kind of hunt; but they don't
cost much-only So or Sc apiece. The
sheikhs are paid in advance, and don't
care whether the poor devils come back,
and so we don't bother much about them.
Baby elephants we like to get when they
are about one year old. Younger ones
are too tender, and older ones know too
much. They soon get acquainted with
all the camp, and we have lots of fun
with them. They are kindly, docile, and
as full of capers as the little niger ba-
bies that play with them"
"But of all fierce, ungovernable and
lusty brutes," the hunter continued,
"the hippopotamus with young is the
very worst, and whenever we start off to
get baby of that kind we calculate to
come back with one or more men miss
ing. In the water they fight like devils,
and in five minutes will crush in pieces
the strongest boat we can use. They
are quick as flash, too, notwithstand.
ing their clumsy appearance, and the
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