The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-12-20
ALI. HYENAs ARE NOT EDWARDS.
Illustrative Encounters Win Them in
SomaIiIaaI.

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H mas a~e noted as great towards
bat ] have come across a few exceptions
WHEN abcE- sixty miles from Berbera
on my return journey, l canped close Il
a So-Lali zar,5a. Soon the head meI
came III ana asked me 10 shoot a paci
of six hyenaS. as they had killed a great
many sheep and goats. That morning
they killed two sheep, and the same
night jumped into the zareba and car
ried off a sheep and badly bit a young
cow.
Next morning | saw two Somali nIer
running after a hyena with spears, but
he only kept about 100 yards III front
and as soon as they stopped he did the
same and had a look at them, and OF
their returning he quietly walked II.
/ vas busy with a koodoo head at the
time, so did not go after him, but evi
IDENTIFY he wanted to see what | was do
ing and so came toward me. Wher
about 100 yards off | put a bullet through
his shoulders.
50 much for Ne. l. He knew how
f. { Somali could throw a spear, bat
not how far a rife would carry.
Next day at noon we heard a great
shouting about Il mile off. After awhile
| made out that "A lion had killed one Of
my camcls. took the $50 express and
started of. On arriving on the scene
found it was not a lion, but a hyena, and
that the camel was NOT dead, but badly
bitten on the hind parts.
: woman said the hyena was behind
Some low bushes about $50 yards off.
The bushes, three III number, were only
% feet high and on an open plain. As
t." SOnali men had been making a great
noise | said nothing would stop there.
However, | went to have a look, and
when about seventy yards off the bush
up anne a mead and took a good look al
HE, and then went down slowly, like a
lion c~rOuching. | went twenty yards
closer, when up came the head to have
another look. | took a steady aim, and
next moment II express bullet between
the eyes Of Il hyena finished him.
He was q very large and fat beast,
with d good Goa Of hair, and had a good
portion Of Il sheep in his inside.
Now could imagine INC going for a
d camel if starved, but not when fat.
and at midday, with a man and woman
accompanying the camels-a thick bush
within 900 yards on the left, if he had
wanted to get away. Instead of doing
so ne kept to the open country, with
three bushes hardly large enough to
conceal him, and then held his ground
until SHOT dead. | think it showed
great pluck. End of No. 2.
In the might the men heard some of the
others bowling, SO at daylight l went
owe 10 where | shot No. ,, and there.
sure enough, were three more hyenas.
Just then II of the three picked up
the dad one by the pack and carried i
III his mouth, with lis head thrown III
to keep it off the ground, only the feet
trailing. lie took it about sixty yards
and PIT t under Il bush. l lay still for
a few minutes, and then the vulturts
came down. bot the three hyenas drove
them Of. then sat up and one Of them
saw me. AS they were only 125 wards
OFF, however. had a good shot. and a
hollow bullet behind the shoulder fin
lShed 80. :. lie other W. made off.
50 | left teen.
In the afternoon one of my Somali
men said there was a hyena keeping off
the yultUres. went cut with the glass
and say lie had taken the last dead one
about 200 yards up a stony hill with
some large rocks on the top. He was
just going back to the rocks after hav-
ing made a sOrtie upon the MIXTURES. |
then went up toward the rocks, VIII, :
out lie came and took a good look, stand
ing facing me.
1t was a long shot, over 200 yards;
but by good luck | put a bullet in the
center Of his throat. killing him instant
ly. This made the fourth. Next morning
| went to take a look and there wa ole
with the dead one SHOT the day before
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