The Portland daily press., 1888-06-14

otTlua from Tue dIldcKS OF Wllu animals at
night. 1t is terrible piece Of work to con-
struct this fence, but once up it serves for
seven months.
The avengers held his legs and arms while
the father of the murdered man took circu-
lar sword and proceeded to saw away at the
murderer's neck. After he had sawed awhile
ne decided that the man was dead; certainly
It was reasonable to suppose that he was.
After the avengers.departed the Homrahans
picked up the bleeding body of their friend
to bury him. To their surprise he breathed.
They had him and kept him alive by their
mans neck up, and after that there was
nothing the matter with him except, as
Lohse says, that he had 'stiff neck.
Next Loshe must buy horses for his ma
tive hunters. The natives have several pc
culiarities. They won't do anything for
themselves. Loshe they call "Touil," or
''The Long Man" that is why they look up
to him, so to speak, for he must do about
everything. The natives follow the tradi-
tions Of Adam and Eve, and are too lazy to
cultivate the SOIL though 1t is rich and fer
tile. About all that they are good for IS
hunting, so Lohse has TO set their machinery
going by sending to Abyssinia for horses.
First Loshe divides his troops into ele-
phant hunters, giraffe hunters, ostrich hunt
ers, rhinOceros hunters, etc. Then q hunt is
planned-an elephant hunt for example. He
takes 10 or 20 h0rsemen with him, and a
number of foOtmen. -Four of the horse
men" Loshe explained, "are to tease the ell
ephants, necessary feature of the hunt, as
You will see. The elephants herd in fifties
and sixties, and live in the interior during
the day time. AT night they come to the
river sometimes remaining in the water all
night
when we ind them, the teasers, who are the
tease the leaders Of the herd. The bulls
soon become angry and excited and give
chase to the teasers. Each leader Is followed
by his family, relatives and friends, and soon
the herd Is strung out-tust what we want.
Then the hunters ride up and hamstring the
males. letting the females go, for they have
but little ivory. All is confusion, and the
elephants are flying hither and thither. At
ter the hamstringing is over the hunters
Jump from their horses on the backs of the
bady elephants, lasso them and twist ropes
around their feet and soon trip them up,
when they are tied to tree. The baby
bucks tremendously when he feels a hunter
on its back, but the hunters are agile and the
elephants ears are big and the hunters hang
on TO them. The baby elephants are left
tied to trees for few days until they are suf-
tciently subdued to be led to camp. | was
on one hunt once when we killed 10 ele-
phants and captured g. The ivory was sold
Tor $4O0, and some of it was female ivory.
Arablans were the purchasers, and that Is
the explanation of the low price,"
The carcasses are not used. Only in rare
cases Is the meat eaten. Sometimes it is cut
on, dried and eaten. The hide is used for
shields. Lohse pays the shiek 500 for every
elephant he kills or captures,
While the elephant hunters have been at
work the giraffe hunters have not been idle.
1t takes only 46 horses for giraffe hunt,r
said Lohse with smile, ''and dozen foot
men besides: The giraffes go in troops, as
many as 100 In number. We start out in the
hottest part of the day and find our long
necked friends in thickets
I'VE drive them out into the opening and
chase them round and round until the Young
ones, the giratfes that we want, fall down
from sheer exhaustion. We drop giraffe
in about an hour. When they fall we Sc
cure them by halters and hold them until
they recover their strength. Then we try to
feed them with goats milk. II giraffe will
take milk we drive him back TO camp, for
we are sure then OF bringing it up. We cap
tuIe them N, when they are three or four
and grow rapidly. The giraffes are kept in
camp five or six months and are therefore
nearly. year old when they get to Ger
many" ~
Lohse pays the sheiks for all the giraffes
that he captures each costing him about $50.
Here good giraffe is said to be worth S3OOO
The cost OF the expedition and of transport
ing the animals, however, eats into the prof
its somewhat, in.spite of the small prices
paid to the sheik for his animals. And
then, too, giraffe hunts are often unsuccess-
ful. One year Lohse had AZ giraffes stalk
ing around his enclosure. The meat of the
giraffe tastes like veal. An ostrich hunt is
not so exciting as 1t is interesting; in fact
there Is little Of hunt about it; it's clear
case OF robblng the hen-roost, and Lohse's
dusky friends appear to have "got it down
1T is impossible" said Lohse, speaking of
an ostrich hunt, ito catch old ostrches, for
no horses are fleet enough: The natives
know the breeding tine Of the ostriches, and
lay for the female accordingly. She lays
about 81 eggs, and the breeding time is %
days. The natives watch the eggs until they
are hatched. The female has her.nest in the
plains, so as to be away from vermin When
the eggs are Matched out the natives shoot
tn the old ones for their feathers and put the
little ones into wicker baskets and carry
them to camp. The young ostrich is brisk
youngster, good deal like a bantam chick
en-. have garden in the 'seriffa' planted
with European produce, such as corn, greens,
ETC., and the young ostriches are turned
loose INTO tne garden, where they have to
Lohse says: II have shot five lions.
Here's an adventure that might interest
you; was hunting for hippopotami one day
with troop OF forty natives. As we were
creeping down TO the river bank through the
Ut derbrush, hugh lioness sprang among
us without warning. She knocked down
one OF the native leaders and tore his thigh
horribly. Before we could bring our guns to
bear on the beast, the shouts Of the natives
her up, we heard a cry in the under brush
near by and there we found her attacking a
young leopard. l shot the lioness in the
back. breaking her backbone. Another shot
through the head finished her. She was half
starved and that was the cause Of her daring
attack on 40 men.
81 shot another lion, some time after that,
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hippopotami. Four lions came down to the
opposite side of the river to drink, a pair
and two cubs. When the lioness saw me
and my men, she ran off with her cubs. The
non slowly followed them to guard his fam
We crossed the river and followed the
lion to an opening and both of us fired
at the same time, killing him
instantly" Lohse brought dozen
lions from Africa the last time he came over,
ported to Germany over 100 lions since he has
been in Africa. The Settle river is long. and
when it follows its course 1t is shallow. In
its bends, however, are deep pools, and here
the hippopotami are found. II have often
s9d obse pospsiSe u cstes oppv ppV the
young ones. got my first hippopOtamus ao-
cidentally, and had no hand in its capture.
Zone day blacF smith was at work in his
shop on the river bank, and hearing ter
Illc NOISE III lue river investigated tine cause
of the racket. He saw big, black beast
wallowing in the mud, a hippopotamus. The
man was scared half to death, not knowing
what the beast was. He summoned all the
spearmen he could fnd and after long
struggle they killed the beast, who had just
given birth to a young one. The baby was
sewed up in hides and brought to town.
lashed between two camels. They brought it
to. me and sold it to me for $50. stipu-
lated, however that l should keep the
hipp0potamus three weeks on trial
as l was afraid that it would not
live. had the little thing, my baby, as l
called it, sleep with me ON my mattress 7
was so afraid that it would die. At first [
was puzzled about feeding baby Finally
got gourd, filled it with goats milk and
held it under the 'baby's' nose. stuck nv
finger in the milk and touched his lips with
my finger. After a while he learned to fol-
low my finger to the milk, and after he had
tasted the milk he drank like an old topper
Baby weighed 200 pounds when he was five
month old. Ihaye transported 10 hippopot-
ami In all to Germany"
"a rhinocerous is a dangerous beast to
hunt. You can dodge him, however, for
when he is wounded he runs in a bee line
and butts over anything. One day one of
my men did not dodge quick enough, and the
beast tossed him in the air, and ripped him
open when he came down." Toward June,
Lohse begins to get ready for the home trip.
He divides his procession into dozen or so
companies. There is a cook for each oom-