Arizona republican., 1901-10-27
GARNER HEARD FROM.
The MonkeyTalk Man Was We'll in Africa on July 4.

Prof. R. L. Garner. the man who makes monkeys talk" has. after months of silence, been heard from. MT. Harry E.. Garner of All Mount Royal avenue. son of the distinguished scientist, yesterday received a letter from his father, dated Mbeka. Manji Nenge, West Africa. July f. Prof. Gar ner Is in excellent health. and. accord ing to his letter. is mainly engaged in hunting big game in the junsles of the dark continent. He says nothing about his experience with the monkeys or how his experiments with the phono- graph are progressing. Much of the letter is devoted to>personal and fam fly affairs. Quitting these portions. the letter is as follows:
 WestAfrica. July 4, 1901
 Mbeka. Manji Nenge.
 My Dear Son: I am just in receipt of you letter of April IA. Since the first week in March I have been living near the native village. about forty miles from Cape Lopez. and for four months never saw a white man. Last week, however. white man who lives al Cape Lopez came to visit me, and in- sisted upon my returning with him to the coast to spend a few days. I ac- cepted his invitation. went with him, and stayed three days. We went over land. and the little walk of forty miles did me much good. I returned by ca noe.
 I could write you many adventures with buffalo since my sojourn here. | have been. much of my time in quest of them as my chief food supply You must know that the equatorial buffalo is very wary and dangerous animal to hunt, and quite the hardest to kin of any that I know of. He is active and pugnacious. and when provoked or wounded will fight to the death was charged three times in one day by them. and have been in some very narrow calls with them. A few days ago I killed three In less than two hours. and two of these killed at one sitting-that Is to say. killed one. ani by the time it was on the ground shot the second one.
 All three fell at the crack of the riflr. which is a thing almost unknown to those who are familiar with hunting this burly bovine. I shot and wounded two others the same day, but they got under cover of the jungle. into which no hunter ever dares to follow one Often they are found dead in the bush after the meat Is spoiled. think there Is no doubt that I have killed as many of them as any other man has ever done in the same length of time but the greater part of them are lost in the manner above described
 The dry season Is now on, and 1t Is not so laborious to hunt them, but during the wet season it is something indescribably difficeult The jungle Is full of swamps. many of them up 70 ones neck. and the trails are Tn many instances so thwarted by submerged roots and vines and fallen trees as ti be almost inaccessible to man. The plains. too, are crossed by great, deep marshes, so filled with long grass. rushes and other aquatic plants that 1t is very difficult to wade through them. Yet for miles and miles I have strug- gled and trudged my way through them. day after day. in rain and scorching sunshine. and often returned to my camp without any return for my labors.
 In few days am going 10 an blake. or native camp. where I shall spend some time in hunting buffalo hippo potamf, wild pigs and elephants. There are plenty of them about here. but they never stir about in the daytime, be- cause of the village or camp.
 There is only one gun here besides mine. and that is an old musket-b:It they manage to kill some game with it. I couldn't do 1t. I have a Winchester (model '95) 30-30 calibre. smokeles powder. soft nosed bullets and. of course. I can catch at long range but it requires center shot to get bur- falo. You must hit the brain or heart or break the spine to get one
 R. L. GARNER i Prof. Garner left Boston July 23. 1900,