The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-10-26


rachin. their last station before COM
mencing the long, tiresome, and dan
gcrous march across the Nubian desert.
They buy camels, water and provisions,
and hire such Of the sheiks and other
natives As they want, the latter being
cheap enough, $5 and occasionally as
high rs 81 each for the trip across the
desert; and when the caravan gets TO its
journeys end the poor fellows are left
10 get back Is beR they can. In this
manner they travel 20 Honiahn, the
Reiche Brothers principal station In
Africa, where the distinctions Of caste
are strictly maintained. Every white
man has \ mansion" which con-
sists Of straw house about
20 feet wide BY 80 feet deep, and
divided into two rooms. In such houses
they live, eat and sleep, and in one OF
them they keep the money that has been
brought across the desert in trunks on
the backs of camels. No attempt % hide
J IL Is made. nor is their any secrecy rs TO
where it is packed during their long
Journey. So honest are the native
blacks that in the past six years not a
dollar has been lost BY carelessness.
Frequently there has been ten thousand
! Of these silver dollars in the hut, with
only one or two white men in camp,
surrounded by negroes, Arabs, and half
breeds; yet no attempt at robbery has
ever been made, and the half-ciyilized
natives, knowing that they are not en-
titled to dollar until they have earned
I ii, never try to get II in any other way.
I The men sleep where and as they please,
and three times day are given a fair
supply Of Indian corn, which they grind,
and, after adding little water, cook
1 over their own fires into sort of bis
cult. The white men have negro wom-
en- cooks, and live luxuriously. They
have eggs, coffee, and Indian corn bis
cult for breakfast, with broiled chick
en- for 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 y can be bought for -,
and "good eating goat for fifty cents.
A little garden truck, which they grow
themselves, and onions, which they raise
in great quantities, are also eaten No
dinner would be complete without plen-
" Of onions, and they are as much in or
der at either of the other meals, or, in
deed, at any time during the day when
one feels hungry. supper is similar to
breakfast, and after that the German
hunters inseparable evening friend, his
llong-stemmed, china bowled, fragrant
pipe. The interior of their hut would
Interest a New York artist. Elephant
tusks, lion skins, leopard skins, and bits
of harness lie scattered about in dire
confusion but in safe place, where IT
can not possibly be scratched or disiig-
ured, the one tenderly used thing with
in the four strong walls, a first-class
full-sized silver-keyed German accorde-
on. They tell that in the long winter
evenings, after the perils and labors Of
! the hunt, Lohse plays on 1t divinely,
while the Others puff %. great clouds Of
smoke and dreamily think of the father
land.
The clearing is on the bank Of a little
river called the Settet, branch Of the
Nile, and il enclosed by high and thick
, hedge, made Of native thorn. AT night
after the animals have been fed, water.
ed, and housed or tethered, great fire.
: are built at irregular intervals arount
: The grounds TO scare off wild animals
and the watch j. set. By 10 o'clock al
: others are in bed. with the dismal how
/. Of the hvena. the roar Of the lion, ans
y the shrill shrek Of the wild cat 70 dis
I turb their dreams of wives and sweet
1 hearts. The myriads u gnats, flies
! and mosquitoes are for a time grea
\ ANNOYANCE to the hunters. and a sOurc'
! If amusement for the natives, who. will
! their black hides covered thick witt
grease, do not mind them, but enjoy tn
! contortions of their white companions
! By III O'Clock all are asleep. and tn
camp u still until about in the morn
! ing. when every body is astir again, an
i the business ~ the day j. begun. Tn
i native hunters form in parties 81 abou
y twenty. each with white leader. an
= start off in different directions. Will
2 those who are left in camp occupy them
= selves in cleaning il up. caring for IN
= beasts. making boxes for transportation
4 and cages for the expected new car
= lures.
= In getting wild animals the rule is
!. kill the old ones and secure the young
n for after any Of the beasts have grow
> old enough to become accustomed
a the free life OF the woods, and 70 hui
N their own food. they are treacher0u
Is and worth little for purposes Of e
r, hibition.
Of Paul Luhn, one Of Reiche Brother
"a men, who has lately returned from Afr
" ca with rare birds and animals, tells i
ey teresting stories Of the perils Of the hun
te He SAYS: .The lion il fierce creatur
in and the lioness, when protecting h
r. young, very much worse; but from loI
of practice we know just how TO 60 aft
II them. A good rifle, firm hands, al
a. steady eyes, and we can soon topple q
a. old fellow over. The old lady may tai
n little longer, but in the end we q
ne sure to kill her, and then * Is no trouh
Of to pick up and secure the cub. We {
no to get these little fellows when they .
no about three or four weeks old. Tn
ara fhcn like vounv puppies easily ma