Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-28
THE WILD BE Asst PIT.

THE WILD BEAST PIT.
HOW BIG ANIMALS ARE TRAPPED IN
AFRICAN JUNGLEs.
A Hunters Fearful Experience with
a Pack of Hyenas-The Gorilla said
to BE the Ffercest of All the wild
Creatures In "A frica.
Since his boyhood Arthur Spencer, one
of the bravest wild animal trappers in
the world, has been battling with the
ferocious beasts and lives to tell the tale
Through stratagem he has always sue
cessfully overcome brute force, although
he has passed through experiences
which of themselves were enough to
Kill man of ordinary nerve
Yes. am in an interesting profess
sion, which is not generally understood
by the people. said Mr. Spencer They
crowd and jostle into the tents during
the season to look at the wild animals,
but they never realize what patience it
requires and the hardships gone through
and bring them to America.
a wild animal catcher has to study
the ways of living and the characteris-
tics of the animals he is after. For in.
stance, a monkey can never be captured
unless you know how to go about it. A
man can't scramble through the tops of
tall tree and get within hundred.
feet of nimble monkey The way we
take them is tc carry into the jungle a
big gourd Of fernented rice juice. When
we reach q tree which is filed with chat.
tcring monkeys, we open the gourd and
pretend to drink the liquid. We then re-
tire to safe distance, and the monkeys,
in their initiative way, come down the
tree and all freely drink Of the liquor.
"A half hour later we can come back and
pick the little fellows up as they lie about
under tho trees in q drunken stllpor.
a baboon is taken in a similar man
ner, but have never known one to live
through the trip to Europe or America.
They generally died on my hands before
we got 100 miles away from the coast.
They either died from seasickness or
from the effects Of a change in climate.
consider a gorilla the fiercest Of
African wild animal life. n efforts 10
get him we are compelled to pierce into.
the heart of jungles where in midday it
T is dusk. When we suddenly come upon
the gorilla family, the mother sends her
young one scampering up tree, while
she stays to defend him. The old man.
standing on his rear legs beats his chest
and gives a roar louder and more terrible
than that of the lion. He then comes at
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