The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-09-14

tOntihent-Ihe Shooting OF Buffalo
BALTIMORE. Sept l4.-Prof. r. l.
Garner, the man who makes monkeys
talk, has. after months Of silence. been
heard from. Harry r. Garner. Of Ill
Mount Royal Avenue, son of the scient-
ist. yesterday received a letter from his
father. dated Mbeka ManU Neuge. West
Africa, July T.
Prof Garner is IN excellent health and
according 10 his Letter. is mainly engaged
IN hunting big game in the jungles Of the
Dark Continent He says nothing about
his experience with the monkeys or how
his experiments with the phouograpu are
progressing Much Of the letter is devot-
ed TO personal and family affairs. Omit
ting these portions, the letter is as fol
lows:
"Mbeka. Manji Nenge.
West Africa. July {. 1901
My Dear Son / am just in receipt OF
your letter OF April A. Since the
FIRST week in March 1 have been living
near this native village. about forty miles
from Cape Lopez. and for four months
never saw white man Last week. how
ever, "a white man who lives at Cape Lo-
PEI came TO visit me- and insisted upon
my returning with him 70 the coast 10
spend few days j accepted his invita-
ton went with him and spent three DAYS
~ went overland. and the little walk Of
forty miles did me much good 1 returned
by canoe
Il could write you many adventures
with buffalo since my soj0urn here
have been, much Of my time, in quest of
them as my chief food supply You must
know that the equatorial buffalo Is "a very
wary and dangerous animal 20 hunt and
quite the hardest 20 XIII OF any that !
know of He is active and puEuacious-
and when provoked or wounded VIII FIGHT
10 the death / vas charged three times
in one day Toy them. and have been in
some very narrow calls with them A
few days ago ! killed three in less than
two hours. and two Of these 1 shot at
one sitting-that is to say. I killed one,
and by the time IL was on the ground
shot the second one.
All three fell al the crack of the II
he. which is a thing almost unknown 20
those " no are familiar with hunting this
huTiy bovine ] shot and wounded two
others the same day. but they got under
cover Of the jungle. into which no hunter
ever dares 10 follow one. Often they are
found dead IN the bush after the meat is
spoiled / think there is no doubt that
have killed many Of them as any other
man has ever done in the same length ri
time but the greater part OF them are
lost in the manner above described
The dry season is now on and IL is not
so laborious TO hunt them but during the
wet season IL is something IudescTluauly
difficult The jungle is fuII Of swamps,
many of them up 20 ones neck. and the
trails are in many instances so thwart-
90 Iy submerged roots and vines and fall
len trees as To Doe almost Inaccessible to
man. The plains. TOO. are crossed by
great deep marshes. SO filed with long
grass. PUSHES. and other aquatic plants
that Il Is very difficult 10 wade through
them Yet for miles and miles I have
struggled and truug,o my say through
them day after day. fl rain and Scorch-
Ing sun. hine. and often returned 70 my
camp without any reward for my labors-
I'm q few days I am going t. an o-ako-
or native camp. where ] shall spend some
Wild pigs and elephants After that /
shall go to mother place where there IS
a big lake IN tho midst OF "a vast pain
-Da hunt elephants. Their. are plenty OF
them about here. but they never stir about
iD the daytime, because Of the village. OF
There is only one gun here besides
mine. and that is am old muSket-hut they
manage 70 XIII some game with IT,
couldn't do IT, ] have "A Winchester
modcl 90. 1870 CalibTc. smOkelrSS pow
der. soTmOscd bullets. and. of course J
can catch at long range. but J. requires
20 centre shot 10 get buffalo. You must
hit the brain o. heart OF break the spine
10 g,t one B. l. GARNER
Prof. Garner left Boston July 3. 1890
Tor Africa Tie took with him "a great
cage and a phouoGTaph and il was his
a,uvtG object Eu learn the monkey Ran
cua-o he holding 20 the theory that the
animal had one He reached the French
Congo in September and WAS there
stricken with Jungle fever. Edward E.y-
sratt Hale. Of Boston Prof. Putnam. of
Harvard and other leading educators
with vast difficulty succeeded lon getting
aiH 10 the Strlck.u scientist
Prof Garner WAS heard from January
t.rIay. his son had mo- word from him