New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-06

J.
Drawer g. Atlanta, Ga.
an exned,ton there for lions alone The few there
ever healthy vigorous and extremely patriotic They
resent the approaches OF civilization Some years ago.
said Lohse old lion used TO visit one OF the neigh
boring villages In my district He committed all sofa
of depredaons and capped the climax OF his record BY
killing seven people. The villagers were reduced to ths
most abjec fear the old beast as you may Judge from
the fact that they reward for his scalp large
sum Of money them raise One OF my friends Ma
homet Achmed. the prize and immortal glory.
81 have shot Ave lions Here's an adventure thas
might interest you: was hunting for hippopotami one
day with troop Of forty natives AS we were creeping
down to the river through the underbrush huge
lioness sprang among without warning she knoekea
down native leaders and tore his thlgh horribly
Before we could bring bear on the beast t
shouts natives drove her away As We started
follow her up heard cry in the uhderbrush near by
and there we found her attacking yophg leopard
shot the loness in the back, breaking her BACKBONE
Another shot through the head finished her. She wal
half starved and that the cause OF her daring attack 90
forty men.
shot another lion time after that on the saan
River where 1 hunting hippopotamL -Four Hons
down to the opposite side OF the river to drink
pair and cubs When the oness saw me and my men
ran cubs The lion slowly followed them
to guard his famys retreat watching all the time We
the river and followed the lion to opening ana
both OF fired at the time, killing him instantly
Lohse brought lions from Africa the last time
came over, two years ago. He has caught and trans
ported Germany 100 lions since he has been IL
Africa River 4, long and when it follows ts
It is shallow In its bends however, are deeJ
pools and here the hippopoami found have ofel
counted twenty thirty hippopoami in these POOLS
said Lohse 1t possible catch only the young ones
got my first hppopoamus accidentally. and had no hand
in its capture
One day blacksmith at work in his shop on the
the river bank and hearing terrific noise in the river
Investigated the Of the racket He a big.
black beast wallowing in the mud. a hippopotamus.
A Two.HUNDRED POUND BABY. /
The scared half to death. not knowing what
the beast He summoned all the spearmen he could
find and after long struggle they killed the beast who
had Just given birth to young The baby
sewed up in hides and brought to town ashed between
camels. They brought Il and sold It
$50. stipulated, however. that should keep the hip
popotamus three weeks trial, afraid that 10
would not i've had the little thing. my baby, mI
called II, sleep with me my mattress afraid
that 1t would die AT first puzzled feeding
baby Finally got gourd, filled It with goats
milk and held it under baby's' I stuck ny
finger in the milk and touched his lips with my finger.
After while he learned TO follow my finger the milk
and after he had tasted the milk he drank Ike an old
topper. Baby weighed 200 pounds when he FIVE
months old That was in 1873. Bsrnum afterward
bought him from Mr.. Reiche. have transported fifteen
hippopotami in all TO Germany"
Sometimes have unpleasant experiences on our hp.
popotamus hunts. Once lost OF my bFayest and
best hunters We had Just seen a baby hippopotamus
in pool, and before could prevent one OF my
Owed into the pool to harpoon the animal he
up something grabbed him and pulled him down under the
He under for long time and when hs
reappeared his friends seized him apd pulled him
from huge alligator had caught between its Jaws
MANGLED BY CROCODILE.
The crocodile had bitten his right arm Just above
the elbow We carried the to camp litter
Journey Of four or five hours He did not whmper s
we toiled along under the hot all the complaint be
uttered Just before he died midnight when be
begged to take OF the wives he had left behind
rhinoceros is . dangerous beast to hunt You can
dodge him. however for when he is wounded he runs in
bee line and butts anything. One day one OF my
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 get ready for the home trip
lie divides his procession into dozen or so companies
There company and they cook or rather
make durah," Of journey cake" Of corn Each
big giraffe rider and three men TO lead It.
The elephants require the number or attendantA
The ostriches their shsckled that they can
take only extremely short steps They g. along Win
their old friends goats The other animals are boxed
up and the patient camels tug them along on rude caf
There from 300 400 men and from 80 TO 100 came
In q procession and they have plenty OF work TO do
The appliances crude. and there arc many dnicutes
and dangers to avoid. When Lohse conducting q
caravan some years ago Nubia he found watering
place already occupied by another caravan. lie "Ahea
water for his caravan but the occupants objected
nght ensued and LohSes men won lonre anu INC i@NN
fred their rifles in the air, for they hsd eo any
relatives dead would have followed Lohss
death possible The law Of the country Is BLOOD iof
blood. years Lohse heard an outcry In 'ss'
where he resting. man there had klIcd 81 lhs~
liant OF neighboring village and had escaped 70 nom
rahan where he lived The murdered mans relatives nsa
called on the shek OF Homrahan to hand over the muir
derer and that was the OF the fuss and outcy In
vain the murderer tried to buy himself OF with eaue
IL was decided to enforce the law and without muir
muir the doomed man stretched himself out on the goans
to die.
HARD MAN TO KILL
The avengers held his legs and while the fatnes
OF the muldt took circular sword ana proeeeoeo
10 saw away 1t the murderers After he had sawed
awhile be decided that the was dead; certainly ~
was reasonable to suppose that he was h~r tae
avengers dparted the Homrshans picked up the oeeos
body OF their friend TO bury him To their 'ufpis.
he breathed They had him and kept him alive oy inc"
own treatment Lohse finally sewed the mans neck un
and after that there wa notaing the matter win H
except as Lohse says that he had n Sun neck
Occasionally Lohse has trouble with the nsu'e~
years ago the Insurgents drove him out OF A0'"'S
and he has not been there since. From sv,s.., .nn
Sc lite River the I,Lplc compASuvcy n.y. - -.
they paid heed TO FL Eshdrs soit uA. $50 ,,m.
han people defeated FL Mahdis follower go
they met them Their sheik Is Eeon ~, No. =.
Chief Egeu, son Of Auert Lohse sS'
sns fellow. He has about $1,000 people In ms
IA n troop OF horsemsn with steel afm'i. Inc
also ,,e n-otec,ed with steel amor ihe aih'o'
purchased from the Turks Their weapons ~.
and lances Lohse has good nany .' -, -. "a
fellows and he gets to Suakim IN saev W.. 49,. psI
!, 4, .. necessary From Suakim. when Is ON tae ~
:, ~ - 49, -, ,r,ais 20 Trieste MarseilleS ~
cordng 10 tho hest bargain he can MAKE ana lhon
c.,w.nx rhcncs the animals are scattered al o." 49,
.o.,a snr,. hav.nr lately met Old Ben Butter
city. who 10 soon to learn the .Ger@Aa '~asSsA