Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-01
MENAGERIE SUPPLIES.
CATCHING WILD ANIMALS IN THE
JUNGLES OF AFRICA.

| CATCHING WILD ANIMALS IN THE
JUNGLES OF AFRICA.
An Encampment on the Settle River, in
Nubia-Danser Of Capturing Big Game.
Elephants, Giranes, Lions, Hippopotami
and ostriches.
Carl Lohse, Of the Park row animal store,
told some of bis adventures the other day,
and they give good idea Of how menageries
the world over are supplied with wild ami.
mails
II pick out two or three Germans" he be
| gan, land start out about November. We
take $40, 900 in silver with us in old Austrian
money-the Maria Theresa dollars. We go
to Trieste, thence through the Suez canal to
Suez There we take an Egyptian steamer
and go to Suailm. At Suakin we have to
buy dozen or more can1els to carry the bag
gage, ammunition, rifles, ETC., and we have
to hire drivers also. 1t takes four caInels to
carry the silver.
From SuakiIn we journey across the
Nubian desert, trip Of eighteen or twenty
days. We travel only in the night on &C
count of the fierce heat in the day time
| making shelter for ourselves against the
suns blasting rays. Sometimes we encoun-
ter a sirocco, terrific whirlwind that
sweeps the sand before it in blind
ing blasts. When a sirocco springs
up the day suddenly grows dark. Then
the canels instinctively bury their
heads in the sand and we wrap ourselves in
blankets and curl up in holes in the sand that
we have made and wait until the storm has
blown over. There are twelve military sta
lions along the route garrisoned with SOL
diers who protect the telegraph. Our desti-
nation is Cassala, IN old Egyptian post Of
| 10000 inhabitants There we purchase an
! extra supply of twenty or thirty camels,
some lumber for crates and take in a new
supply of provisions. The game has long
ago been 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 dss-
| tination."
| Here is where the work Of the year begins.
| The country is owned by sheiks, each dis
trict being governed by sheik and Lchse
has to purchase permission from the sheik Of
Homrahan to work there. The natives here,
according to Lohse, are 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
sLo, the poor Indian" Lohse brings with
him presents with which to propitiate his
dusky friends He has silks. cloths, caIicoes,
rifles, revolvers, ammunition, sweetmeats
and beads Lohse is foxy and he has no diff
Guilty in working on the affections Of hisdarl.
brothers with beads and sweetmeats. The
sheik is the big gun and he readily gives
Lohse 100 acres for an encampment, and
furnishes him with 100 men to hunt and help
on the work. First the underbush is burned
off the land and then the cleared space is en-
circied with thorn fence eight feet high to
protect the ''seriffa" from the attacks of wild
animals at night. It is 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 ''TeuiI" 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 a number of footmen. -Four of the
horsemen," Lohse explained, ''are to tease the
elephants, 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.
SIT takes only forty-si1 horses for girAR,
hunt" said Lohse with a smile, land dozen
footmen besides. The giratfes 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 girafes that we want-fau 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. II have often counted
twenty or thirty hippopotami in these pools"
said Lohse. 1T is possible to catch only the
young ones A rhiuoceros is dangerous
beast to hunt. You can dodge him, how
ever, for when he 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-
sent the approaches OF civilization. An
ostrich hunt is not SO exciting asst is interest
ing; in fact there is little Of hunt about it;
it's clear case of robbing the hen roost, and
Lohse's dusky friends appear to have got it
down to fine art"
Toward June Lohse begins to get ready for
the home trip. He divides his procession into
Q dozen or so companies. There is a cook for
each company, and they cook, or rather
mako ''durah,s a 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
ostriches have their legs shackled 50 that
they can take only extremely short steps
They 90 along with their old friends tho
goats The other animals are boxed up and
tie patient camels tug them along on rude
carts There are from 800 TO 400 men and
from 90 to 100 camels in a procession, and
they have plenty Of work to do.-New York
Tribune.
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