New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-05-22

and firmly held in a trap no larger
than the boys set for mink and musk
rat. We replaced the chain with a
half inch rope made ofnative grasses,
and as soon as a suitable spot had
been selected we excavated a hole,
buried the trap out ofsight, and then
bent down a sapline and tied the end
of the rope to it. This sapling was
held down by trigger, which a sharp
pull would release.
When the trap had been set no eye
could detect anything suspicious
around the spot, and we felt certain
that the creature would get into
trouble if he passed that way. When
we could do no more we retired to
the village, about a mile away. 1t
was aboutsundoWn when we. arrived,
and we were just in time to see a
wonderful proceeding. A large and
savage looking hyena came out of
the jungle and shifted and shifted and
growled at us for a distance of about
twenty rods. We refrained from
shooting, for fear the reports would
brighten the man wolf away, and
while a hundred of us stood gazing
at the beast another suddenly ap-
peared. It was the same creature I
saw from the hammock.
cit is the man wolff moaned a
score ofnatives in chorus, and at
| least a dozen of them skunk away in
to their huts.
But the beast had not come to dis
turb u.s. He had evidently been
tracking the hvena, and he was there
for revenge. He bounded over the
ground with great leaps, and the by
ena did not suspect his approach.
| The last bound was a tremendous
curve in the air, and as the man wolf
came down it was full upon the hye-
mas back. He uttered a terrible
scream as he struck, and the
hyena gave vent to something
like a shrek. They rolled over
and over the ground, biting, clawing,
growing and gurgling, but the fight
did not last over sixty seconds. Then
the man wolf sprang up, shook him
self, and uttered yell of triumph,
and after threatening us for a couple
of minutes re-entered the Jungle.
We went QUITO the body of the hyena,
and it's condition gave us strong
idea Of the man VOLTS fighting pow
ers. One ear was torn off, both eyes
plucked out, two legs broken, it's
tongue bitten nearly off, and it had
several horrible gashes in the belly.
1t was plain that the creature was a
match for lion or tiger, and we be-
gan to feel very uneasy. By the ad-
| vice Of the head man we built several
extra fires and kepta sharplookout.
'':The fellow is evidently very an
gry,' explained the old man. ''You
are white men, and he is not pleased
at your coming. Perhaps he has
been told you are here to capture
him."
''But who could have told him?''
"He had cousin who was turned
into a vulture for striking his father,
and another cousin who was turned
into q serpent for cursing our faith.
Either one may have carried the man
wolf the news"
! We placed sentinels on the path
when ready to turnin, buteverything;
passed off quietly until about mid
night. Then a succession of shrieks
and screams and roars brought every
man, woman and child out of sleep
with a bound. / hadno other thought
than that the man wolf had seized
one of the sentinels, but as I leaped
out of the hut one called to me:
''Sahib, you have caught the beast
in your trap"
1t was a mile, as I have told you,
from the village to the spot where we
had set the trap, and yet the screams
seemed close at hand. When the
news went round that there was no
danger the village soon guieted down.
but there was no further sleep for any
one. Whether caught or not, the
creature seemed fastened to one loo
ality for the remainder of the night.
and Of all the proceedings I ever knew
a wild beast to engage in his were the
worst. He had a voice as strong as
a lions, and he was not quiet for two
minutes at a time He .roared,
screamed, shrieked, lamented and
growled, and the wind brought us
every sound. He still had afullhead
of steam on when daylight came, and
after hasty breakfast a party OF
twenty of us moved in his direction.
He probably heard us coming, for his
anger was freshly aroused and pretty
soon we could hear him learning at
THE bushes.
| am free to say that the first sight
of the man wolf, caught by the hind
foot in the'trap, and hanging head
downward from the swaying sapling,
took the courage outaof me sooner
than as if Islad meta tiger faee to
face on the path. He hung about
three feet from the earth, ard as far
as he could reach in every direction
he had pulled up the bushes by the
roots. He was as supple as "a
monkey, ond could double himself
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