The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-06
a HUNTERS EXPERIENCE IN AFRICA.
ASr. Royal Phelps Carroirs Long List OF
Big Game.

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| AEr. Royal Phelps CarroIrs Long List OF
| Big GAne.
MFR. Royal Phelps Carroll, who returned on
the steamer Majestic on Thursday from a
| hunting trip in Central Africa told Sun re-
porter last night some OF the racy incidents OF
his experience in an unexplored country
| He penetrated wids which no white man
had ever before visited, and shot game where
| the sound OF the rife had never before been
heard. 1t was n country which Stanley has
| said could not be safely penetrated with less
than 1000 rifles, and which is ruled by the
! only giant race 81 Africa.
Mr.. Carroll went prepared for tho worst that
could happen. lie carried n powerful Rrma-
ment for himself and had 200 mon at his back
| all natives OF the onst const all marksmen
| and all we're armed with Snyder rifles and end
| less rounds Of ammunition. This guard or
| caravan was under command OF trusty
| Zanzibar slave named Eulia, who was a
| famous hunter himself and knew the country
we'll having travelled inland with caravans as
| far as Till The 200 men were native Africans
| who had been gathered at Zanzibar to await
MIR Carroll's arrival there by Col. Evan Smith,
the English Consul General at Zanzibar; with
whom MIR. Carroll had been In CORRESPONDENCE.
ond in Africa, but hts first in the, uneNplored
a
| he and Hamilton Aston Carey. started for Lon
don to embark for Africa They expected 10
enter the wids together. But Mr. Carey took
picE in London and had to return home, and
when Mr.. Carroll reached I"nz'HMHr AFR ,Eis
land I HnS wa. n'D on his t WY w nasf
each E otfer in the auca wa canal 50 Mr. tSTTci
made his excursion alone tho leader and only
white man OF the party. Mr. lhrroll Went 10
IunZibur n IA ArIawAllH
pany with Col Mctwen ana Mr. Mckenzie,
head OF the British Fast lrdin Company. There
lie met Stanley, who was lEst coming out. and
spent ten DAYS with him. Stanley did not favor
Mr.. CaTroIs propoised hgnip,G trip and rronlt,
unex plored Nasal country
on Jan Nj SarrG began his his march onch into
neT ust two %' Months in lie WiSrnes his
return was hnstened somewhat by the for
nation Of an abcess on his leg, which prevent
real object OF his trip He killed large amount
Of game. Here is q list: Seven elephants, !
wiidebeeste. lesser koodo . Glands. hHrtc-
beeste. Grantu gagelles, u 1mpala gazees,
10 hueos ttSin6qSk = R!Fphes Ta
6S BUCK and Yi kirkii Saseife: OD'n''A'' '''a
He brought all the Ivory back with him. and
Ia having the heads OF come OF his other prizes
mounted In London. The great mass OF this
game. Mr. Carroll said last night it was neccs-
while IN the Nasal country because the Nasal
never eat vegetable food and II was impossi-
pie buy sy food S them S xd1d had
killed so much game. His object in entering
central, Africa was TO get elephants. and he
would have pnid no attention 10 any other
The caravan followed the trail left by Mr..
Chanler. who had preceded them as far "a Ia
veta, under Mount kilmanJaro, where Mir.
Chnpler's camp was found with the American
S s y1E T9e ot they entered the
the route OF the explorer Thompson. and
then, struck into the unbrGken wilderness.
trod i He remained two DAYS near Mount Mcru
where he did most Of his hunting. He had pro-
iron wire. and Shooting Tor tradnS PURPOSES.
The Nasal make arrow heads OF the iron wire.
which Is practically the legal tender OF the
ar. Carroll took with him I'VE Winchester
l2-bore rife carrying bullets weighing ten
or twelve to the s pound 4o,caii6re rifle: and
aroGsS o f be wose an Tf
lie had to fall back wholly uron the l.nciisn
ssh S for PIG M fS
elephant. which; he says. is the game for the
Affa sad Mr. carS On 1901 Gue
matter from hunting them from 6osse6aGk in
H AR open '6uh tangled 'GH hHte sa Hns
gulres heavy wfaS nORsn, to bring down
Weapons used in the, ,open country, south.
where they can be followed any distance
Mr. Carroll lost the great majority OF his
elephants because OF his light weapons
10 put nearly 100 shots in one be.
h" killed on the first shot. The ivory Of one Of
his elephants weighed seventy pounds. and
that OF another seventy-four pounds. The
Nasal consider the elephants gods. and
never kill them believing hat Il they do they
will lie purs ued by witches.
Other game in the country was also surpris-
in9ly plentiful. Herds OF Graffes were seen
every day and rhinocer We're so thick as to he
O nuisance. The rhlnoceros has a habit OF
charging reoklessy upon any living thing
II sees. and Mr.. Carroll had TO Kill
many IN self, Id o Two 20 ze5oras or
plies The Nasal are a powerful and warlike
race md it Was only Mr. CAROLS large baud
OF armed men that gave him safety among