Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-08-29
',..y.a ARE NOT cowAaos.
49,. Encounter. with Them In


,,,s Encounters with 'he" :"
"a" somalilnnd'
ara noted Gs great towards
H,,nS socome across few exceptions.
" ah,nt sixty miles from Berbera'
we. ,s,nra Journey, l campcd close to
e Iii rarcba. Soon the head men
I H. and asked me to shoot a pack
o.. hycnas. as they had killed great
e'r .iecp and goats. That morning
- ,.,lIed two sheep, and tho same
g ,n,nped into the zareba and car
.I Is ashcop and badly bit a young
~ Morning / saw two Somoli mon
N ,nr after a hycna with spears. but
''i niy kent about 100 yards In front,
f,"' soon as they stopped ho did tho
= aud had look ut them, and on
~ I. roinruing he quietly walked on.
~ - busy with koodoo head at tho
"a did not 20 after MIN, but oyi-
w, mo- wanted'to see what was do
~ .,g 50 caino toward me. When
100 Yards oil put a bullet through
\ shoulders. - -, -,
Z, much for No. /. Hc knew how
sornali could throw a spear, but
aitow far a rife would carry.
a., day az noon we heard great.
,..src about q mile or. After awhile
10 amt that lion Ind killed one Of
.-csmels Itook tho l.jO express aud
e,,ed Of. ON arriving ON the scene l
~ h was not lion, but 70 byona, and
\, me camel was not dead, but badly
p,sn on the hind parts.
woman said the hyona was behind
a. low bushes about 100 yards oil.
iso bushes, three in number, were only
4 Zee, high and on an open plain. AS
,ss9mali mon had been making u great
..i.eI said nothing would stop there.
HswWer. | went TO haye u look, and
vben about seventy yards or the bush
upeame q head and took good look at
~ and then went down slowly, like II
M erouching. went twenty yards
deer. when up camo tho head TO have
ro,her look. took a steady aim, and
tsrt moment an express bullet between
Aeeyos Of q hycna finished him.
No was very large and fat beast,
rih good coat Of hair and had n good
pr;lon Of q sheep in his inside.
Now could imagine one going for u
, camel II starved, but not when fat,
al at midday, with u mnn and woman
teomrlnying tho camols--a thick bush
within 200 yards ON the loft, II he had
trnied to get away. Instead Of doing
be kept TO the open country, with
hree bushes hardly large enough 10
eneeal him, and then held his ground
uiil shot dead think 1t showed
| uei, pluck. End OF No. ..
In the night the men heard some Of tho
shers bowling, 80 at daylight | went
uer to where / shot No. ., and there,
rre enough, wcra three more hycnas.
Just then one Of the three picked M
de dead one by tho blck aud carried iJ
hhh mouth. with his head thrown NJ
o kept. oil tho ground. only tho tecl
failing. lilo took It about sixty yards
Nd pm. e undCrn bush. lay still for
! few minutes and then tho vulturei
ana down, but the three hyepus drove
ten Of, thgn sat mp and oni Of them
uwmc, AS they were only t5 yards
q, however, l had a good SHOT. and q
hllow bullt. behind tho shoulder lin.
shed No. 0, Tho other two made or
plbft them.
In tho afternoon cne Of my Somal
zen said there vas a hyona keeping OF
DE vultuiea. Invent out with the glasl
nd saw he had taken the last dead ont
about 200 yards up u stony hill witt
sane large rocks on tho top. He wa
!as, going hlcl. TO the rocks after hay
hg made sortio upon the vulturcs.
hen went up toward the rocks, whei
lathe came and tool, good look, stand
hg facing me.
Il was long shot, over 200 yards
but by good luck | put bullet in tn,
enter Of his throat. killing him instant
y, This made tho fourth. Next morninl
Invent TO take u look and there was on,
WITH the dead ono shot tho day before
London Field. ~