San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-14

1J,UuU InuauILSLuJS Pnere we purchase TN
extra supply OF twenty or thirty camels,
some lumber for crates and take in new
supply of provisions The game has long
ago teen shot OFF the deserts, and we have to
live on preserved meats Next We strike
out toward the east, and after journeying
five or six days we arrive at the district of
Homrahan, ON the Settle river, our final des-
tination."
Here is where the work of the year begins.
The country is owned by sheiks, each dis
trict being governed by a sheik and Lohse
has to purchase permission from the shelk of
Homrahan to work there The natives here,
according to l-Ohse, are a cross between the
emigrated Egyptians and Nubians, and he
says that they are courageous and Intelligent.
But from his methods of procedure one might
infer that the natives are first cousins to our
"Lo, the poor Indian" Lohse brings with
him presents with which to propitiate his
dusky friends He has silks, cloths, calicoes,
rifles, revolvers, ammunition, sweetmeats
and beads Lohse is foxy and he has no diff
Guilty III working on the affections of his dark
brothers with beads and sweetmeats. The
sheik Is the big gun and he readily gives
Lohse 100 acres for an encampInent, and
furnishes him with 100 men to hunt and help
OH the work First the underbush is burned
oil the land and then the cleared space is en-
circled with thorn fence eight feet high to
protect the 'seritfa' from the attacks of wild
animals at night. 1t is a terrible piece of
work to construct this fence, but once up it
serves for seven months.
Next Lohse must buy horses for his native
hunters The natives have several peculiari-
ties They won't do anything for themselves.
Lohse they call "Touil" or 1.-The Long Man"
that is why they look up to him, so to
speak, for he must do about everything. The
horses are bought for SIS to $50 apiece, and
then the hunting expeditions are at once or
ganized. First Lohse divides his troops into
elephant hunters. giraffe hunters, ostrich
hunters, rhinoceros hunters, etc. Lohse talks
as If elephant hunts were not particularly ex-
citing-a mere matter Of killing mosquitoes.
He takes ten or twenty horsemen with him
and number of footmen. -Four of the
horsemen," Lohse explained, "are to tease the
elephants, a necessary feature OF the hunt.
The elephants herd in fifties or sixties, and
live in the interior during the daytime.
At night they come to the river, sometimes
remaining in the water all night"
While the elephant hunters have been at
work the giraffe hunters have not been idle
alt takes only forty six horses for giraffe
hunt" said Lohse with a smile, land dozen
footmen besides. The giraffes go in troops,
as many as one hundred in number. We
start out in the hottest part of the day and
find our long necked friends in thickets. We
drive them out into the opening and chase
them round and round until the young ones
the giraffes that we want-fan down from
sheer exhaustion"
The Settle river Is long, and when it fol
lows its course it Is shallow. In its bends,
however. are deep pools, and here the hippo
potami are found 81 have often counted
twenty or thirty hipPopotami In these pools"
said Lohse. 1T Is possible TO catch only the
young ones A rhinoceros Is a dangerous
beast to hunt You can dodge him, how
ever, for when be is wounded he runs in
bee line and butts over anything"
Lions are not numerous enough in Nubia
to send out an expedition there for lions
alone. The few there, however, are healthy,
vigorous and extremely patriotic. They re-
SAINT the approaches Of civilization. An
ostrich hunt is not 80 exciting as it is interest
ing; in fact there is little of hunt about it;
it's clear case of robbine the hen roost, and
down to fine art"
Toward June Lohse begins to get ready for
the home trip. He divides his procession into
a dozen or 80 companies. There is a cook for
each company, and they cook, or rather
make ''durah," sort of tourney cake" of
corn Each big giraffe has one rider and
two or three men to lead it. The elephants
require the same number of attendants. The
IL, Ill
tnev can take only extremely short steps
They go along with their old friends tie
g"ats. The other animals are boxed up and
me patient camels tug them along on rude
ARTS. There are from 800 to 400 men and
rom 80 to 100 camels in a procession, and
.noy have plenty OF work to do.-New York
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