Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-09-04

was begun.
! All this took place quicker than
takes to tell the story. When the femal
hippo was wounded by the Homra
hunter of the Reiche party, the ol
hippo first dashed into the water, bu
soon rose to the surface, and the Hon
rams pureued it with harpoons and th
Germans with elephant guns. Whel
the hippo was fred at it first tried Il
escape, but q large ball struck agains
the softer part of the skull; it becam,
infuriated, seemed to lose all sense o.
danger, rushed up the bank out of tha
river, attacked Z Homran, tea1ing I
piece o: Aesh out of his thigh with u
crest protuding s1sth, IA would hav,
killed Schaumann, who had fred th<
ball, If the Homrans had mot CLOSED
around it and dispatched it with theil
swords
But when the Homrans hunt the hippo
alone they do not use fire arms at al.
When the animal makes of with the
block of ambatch wood they patiently
watch it for about an hour. Then they
jump into the water (they never wear
any clothes on . hunt), and try to get
the block. They swim like fish, darting
hundreds of yards under water, and
fearless of the croc0diles they pursue the
wounded hippo guided BY the ambstch
block, and seixing the rope by the block
they drag the animal to the shore and il
it rises TO the surface give it another dose
of harpoonA When the hippo keeps in
the middle of the stream, where, a.
though the ambstch could be reached By
swimming, it could not be worked with
sufficient force for want of leverage, the
Homrans fssten two ropes across the
river, one slack and the other tight
These catch the ambatch and hold it
until the Homrans lasso it from the shore
and drag the animal in this way to the
land.
Schaumann says the Homrans aresuch
expert swimmers they will keep near the
harpooned hippo, following the ambatch ;
and he has seen more than ono lump mp
on the back of the animal, catch weap-
ons thrown by those ON shore, and inhict
deep wounds with them into the body of
the struggling creature. The hippos are
much more afraid OF man on foot than
of one or many on horseback. They
will attack horse sooner than they will
q man.
The Reiche party, with the Homrans,
had more luck this year in their hunt
than they ever had before, bringing back
lO2 animals and birds from the hunting
grounds of the Nile tributaries, besides
MANY more which they killed, eating
some and leaving others to be eaten by
the natives, or other animals. On the
way back they killed many crocodiles,
and in the stomach of one large bull
crocodile, about fifteen feet long, they
found q young hippo. Considering that
the young hippos calved some years ago
in London weighed 99a pounds each one
day after birth, the crocodile must have
had = severe job gulping dow that young
calf hippo in Africa. 1t was not cut or
but simply pressed down into
the stomach of tho crocodile.
When the hunting party begins to move
back the hippos and other young and the
dangerous animals are placed in strong
wooden boxes, perforated with holes, and
are carried by camels. The camels 60
single file one after the other, with long
bars running from the sides of each cam.
el, and fastened to the saddle OF the one
in front and to the saddle Of the camel
in the rear. The boxes in which the
animals are then enclosed are put ON the
bars and fastened securely in the middle
between the two camels.