Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-08-24

llin5 Story Of a
Lion Hunt.
brown, rugged rocks, devoid of
lion and heated by centuries of
sunshine, breathed forth their
trated heat upon man and beast.
en the barren foothills stretches
lie sand blazed and shimmered,
occasional eddies of furnace-heat-
came down from above and
spectral dust Spouts, which raced
s he desert until lost in the white
above the irregular line of horri-
Dvcr Il the remorseless sun gilt
Es and burned-burned as only the
sun can burn in the mecas of
b. Somall Land, writes, in the
b. Inter ocean, Art S. Jennings,
Ter for the De Beers Diamond
Bany
pn Of my honored father!' cried
4 Soma guide, who usually replen-
lad his stock of courage and endur-
Ies land egotism) by swearing by
self, this is most bad, Sahib Jen-
will we ever reach the bad country
es. never fear" answered I, al
III my own supply of hope had been
H ly diminishing. AS I live, I be-
those are the IA Dig ell MAZDA If
SO, we will find fresh water and
W. grass before tomorrow noon"
caravan had stopped for a brief
on the summit of one of the nu-
Us small elevations, and as I spoke
nted to the south, where the dim
M bcs OF two slender peaks were visi-
Dove the horizon; at the same time
Nv the field glass from its sheath
y side and raised it to my eyes.
n the powerful lens brought almost
y very feet the country lying fifty
bore miles distant, I Involuntary
N ed a cry of joy. They are the
u.s. for crtainty, for I can see the
Nibo (clear water). Juno, we
soon be out of the DESERT"
llah il Allah!' breathed the guide,
the remainder of the Somals
the sun and offered thankful pray
to the Deliyerer for the welcome
Then followed a renewed crack
ot keddah whips, as the jaded pack
saddle animals were urged over the
s. ground.
be expedition into the Karma coun-.
3 Pad ended in dismal failure. Not
= had We failed to find the immense
9sIts of trlable ore which the mana
s. OF the De Beers Company John
rs Hammond) had believed were To-
ID there, but on the return trip our
r. guide had lost his bearings, and
4 nearly a week We had wandered
AcSs.y about the semi-desert. Four
SPaE donkeys had died of "shagga"
knesS and our supply of water was
f. exhausted.
n we slowly progressed toward the
H. the soil became more and more
re the desert being in time replaced
+ rolling, grassy plain, in which the
y sage brush and scattered tacti gave
F. to mesquite and "dhero" bushes.
before sunset We encamped near a
Wadi which was caused by a per-
S4i Sprlng, from which the water
Eed i'll ttful stream. By scraping a
+ IN the hard soil we soon had pool
muddy water for the animals, and
/ " lew minutes work with a filter
| cleaned enough for our own use.
lie night came on with usual tropi-
S|LttnesS, the gray dusk being re-
yea by nky darkness. My men had
'SV'sd enough dry wood to build a
LP-hre, around which they now sat.
.e'1u'E eating their dates and rice.
s starlight shone dimly on the long
as and mSShapen backs of the cam
ana showed family the solitary,
'.e-CIad Inquire of the sentry at he
ga at the outskirts of the camp.
o1"lS to himself a mournful Mata-
song, Soon they had finished eat
ana were stretched at full length
'"' the hre, while the silence of the
,s'9 STept over ala silence broken
intervals by the melancholy cry of a
Ma, or the weird hown of hyena.
'.'oi'g as though they were miles and
les away.
l was rapidly passing into dreamland
en- following period of intense ST.
oe, came a tar-away, deep, moaning
mo. While by no means loud or
.uihg' It brought me wide awake and
ing upright on my cot, my nerves
s,ed with excitement; it was the
daNening roar of lion!
Excited voices from the direction of
campfire indicated my men had
'ia the omlnous sound and were wide
axe IN consequence; a moment later
,o1Id near them piling dry bushwood
me slumbering Goals The deep,
,l1olng roarS were repeated at inter-
= apparently growing nearer and
'"s away IN the same moaning note.