The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-07

AFRICAN ExpLoRER,s STORIES.
He Was Not Murdered, But an EIe-
plant Almost Killed Him.
From the London Mall.

From the London Mall.
Mr.. H. Cavendish, cousin of the Duke of
Devonshire. has Just returned from West
Africa, where 1t was falsely reported re-
Gently he had been killed while on sport
ing expedition. He has been seen by a
Reuters representative, to whom he told
an interesting story of adventure In Som
aliland and British East Africa.
Mr.. Cavendish has the distinction of be-
ing the youngest African explorer. With
Lieut.. Andrews Of the Black Watch, ac-
companied by eighty-four armed Somalis
with $50 camels, he started from Berbera,
travelling via Lugh to Lake Rudolph and
thence by the Uganda road through Xix
uya to Mombasa.
When nearing Lugh he found an Abys-
sinian force had been about killing men,
women and children, and torturlng priso-
ners. The natives had fed from their viii
lagos. At Lugh the Italian commander
told him the garrison had been attacked
repeatedly by large force of Abyssinians.
On the way from Lugh to Lake Ste
phanie a salt lake crater was discovered
1900 feet deep and mile and half wide.
Mr.. Cavendish had an extraordinary ad-
venture with a wounded elephant round
Lake Stephanie, and he gives the follow
ing account of it:
MY escape was nothing less than mira
culous. The great beast mad with rage,
was charging me, when at the critical mo-
ment my gun failed, and had to turn and
run. But the elephant soon caught me,
and going on his knees tried to pin me
to the ground with his tusks. Failing in
this he caught me with his trunk and
flung me round under his body with the
idea of crushing me to death.
''FIow escaped, do not know, as was
In this situation for half an hour. At the
end Of that time the great brute got up,
and kicking a piece of wood, which he
doubtless took to be my dead body made
off to his retreat. Curiously enough, had
no bones broken. was covered with blood
and owing to the pressure, my body was
for some time covered with boils."
From Lake Stephanie to Lake Rudolph
there was the additional excitement of mu-
tiny on several occasions, his escort
threatening to murder him and Lieut.. An
drews, and his headman at another time
making similar threat.
At Lake Rudolph the natives attacked
the expedition. and good deal of lighting
had to be done With the Turkans In fact,
they had to fight day and night until the
southern end of the lake was reached.
Mr. Cavendish made some important
geographical discoveries. In addition to
filling in maps he ascertained that Tele-
kPS volcano had disappeared, ana a ped OF
lava had taken its place, while another
volcano had sprung up three miles south.
He adds another lake and new antelope
to those already known, and he shot thir-
ty-eight different kinds of game.
After leaving Lake Rudolph the expedi-
ton had comparatively quiet journey,
the last ninety miles to Mombasa being
done by the railway.
Mr. Cavendish, who met Maj. Macdon-
AIDS expedition at the end of August, said
il consisted of eleven British officers, in
cIuding> four doctors. Maj. Macdonald 8
following numbered at least 1880, including
an escort of fifty Sikhs He was expecting
to be Joined by 300 Soudanese troops from
Uganda. The force was well armed.
The objects of the expedition were kept
secret, but from what was said it appeared
that Mai Macdonald intended to follow
Mr.. Cavendish's route as far as the Juba.
Mr.. Cavendish gave Maj. Macdonald fif-
ty-two camels and a number of cattle and
donkeys, besides copies of maps.
The majors expedition proceeded direct
for Njemps, Lake Baringo, on its way to
Rudolph.
Mr.. Cavendish thinks that the italian
Capt. Bettega was murdered by his own
men.