The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-07
HUNTING IN AFRICA.
Phelps Carroll Returns and Tells
OF His TriumphS.
A VERY STRANGE ADVENTURE
ACurious Scene in the Palmer House in Which
a Young Man Identifies Man of Letters
Under Peculiar Circumstances.

Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch.
New YORK, June 6.-Royal Phelps Car
roll, who returned Wednesday from his
hunt in Africa, has lots to tell about his ad
venturous trip. He has been away from
here six months, though his hunting expedi-
ton only lasted from January l TO the same
date of March. Mr. Carroll was disap-
pointed in not meeting Amelia Rives hus-
band, Mr.. Chanler. When he arrived at
Zanzibar DEFENDERS, the latter gentleman
had gone back to England. Carroll found a
caravan of 200 men awaiting him ready to
start. Stanley being at the seaport, Mr..
Carroll spent ten days with the renowned
African explorer. December 10 the cara
van started. The 200 men were armed with
Snider rifles and were tractable. Mr. Car
roll thus tells how the time passed during
the two months he was in the wilds of the
Dark Continent:
We carried for use in making ourselves
agreeable TO the natives in the countries
we were to pass through cotton sheeting
Deads and much quarter inch iron wire.
had an interpreter who was resolute and to
whose diplomacy together with the fact
Jhat Mr. Chanler had been part of the dis
lance before me, owed much OF the ease
ana comfort of the trip. Iron wire is prac-
ucally the currency of the country. People
use II TO make spear heads there being no
iron there. At Taveta, under Mount Kill
manjaro in the English territory. we found
large camp which had been left by Mr..
Chanler and L was delighted to see
the American flag flying over it.
was the first white man on the north side
OF Mount Nero which is IL 900 feet high. l
found great quantities of elephants. I
stayed there ten days shooting and got
seven elephants. one of which was twelve
feet high and with tusks, one of which
weighed seventy and the other seventy
Tour pounds. intended staying two weeks
longer but got an abscess on the leg which
forced NE to stop shooting and return on
my route. During the ten days, however.
l had plenty of shooting and wounded sew
eral elephants which got away, my gun be-
ing little too light contrary to nv ex-
pectations. l had but little trouble with
the Nasal natives. found them inclined to
be peaceable and only had one or two small
disputes which were quietly settled. The
Nasal are splendid men and warlike in ap-
pesrance.
"All the way through the Nasal country
was met with demands for 'hougo,' which
is blackmal or the backsheesh of the
country. 1t was not expensive, however,
Tor the value of the presents or 'hongo'
did not amount each time to more than
seventy live cents. More was demanded
but with little frmness they gave way
for small amounts. The Nasal do not eat
vegetables but live entirely upon animal
food, the native who violates this law being
disgraced. l had difficulty in providing nv
men with food. The seventy loads of beans
had taken was a small quantity for 200
men so l had to shoot their daily food
Two zebras or their equivalent would last
US day, or three rhinoceroses would be
N oh for two dow
Tor the great amount of game killed. 1t
was not all for mere sport but was
necessary to keep my large force alive
Great quantities Of game..were about Mere
Apparently no one mad ever before fired a
shot there. Rhinoceroses were so abundant
that they actually were in the way. l
abstained from shooting them as much as
possible, but when they got to the wind
ward they would come shifting up, and as
they would charge, as l was not there to
be bunted, but to hunt, | had to shoot them
TO get rid OF them, or for food. l had no
blood-curdllEg escapes, and always man
aged to get out of the way of any animals
The full list of game killed is ! lion, so
jzebra, "A wild beasts, hippopotami, /
lesser koodo, Gland, Z elephants, ID harte-
peesh, j stembuck, s great gazelles, u
enpalagazelles. hyena, l waterbuck, 10
buffalo. tiger cat, y giraffs, ) warthogs.
bushbucks, 3 reedbucks and l KirkV
gazelle, I79. All the ivory from the ele-
plants L brought with me and the heads
and other trophies are being prepared in
London