The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-13
fEATS OF
ISLAND GIRL
Story of Trip of the
AIexanders to
Africa.

The Sunday Chronicle of Sept. 8 has
a front page picture of the late S. 7
Alexander, his travelling companion
and his daughter, Miss Annie Alex
ander, sitting on a PROSTATE eIephan
which the latter had killed. The fol-
lowing story goes with the picture:
Travelling 800 miles on foot through
the African jungle, her object the
tracking and killing of the worlds rar-
est, largest and most ferocIous beasts
and the securing of trophies whose
high values are constantly leuplng up
ward, is the record of a California So
ciety woman who s!eed engage in moth
ing more adv entur0us than formal So
cial function l Q ouieuude or books,
if she so desired Instead OF being sat
isfed with the pursuit of the common
place this unusual young lady was not
content with the ordinary evcitemenas
furnished by golf, tennis, boating or
other of the conventional amU-ementS,
but thought life would not actually
hold it's highest interest until she fac
ed the desperate African lion, rhinoc-
eros and elephant in their native
haunts
The heroine of this uncommon ex-
perience is Miss Annie Alexander, who
lives with her mother at their palatial
home on Sixteenth street, in Oakland.
Glory was not one of the objects that
lured this young lady to the quest, for
though she had been back at home
for several months she has said moth
ing of her adventure to any save inti-
mate friends. and with reluctance con-
sented to supply the Information and
photographs for this article. When
Miss Alexander set out upon the hunt
!, she was in Honolulu. She had had the
scantest experience with a rifle. In
fact, she had shot but one deer IN her
life. Nevertheless she felt no waning
of courage when her father proposed
tfssst she accompany him on an At
rfEan hunting expedition for which he
had conceived the greatest enthusiasm.
S. T. Alexander was a man of means,
and a great student of affairs, gfv-ag
In particular time and study to the
writings of the worlds foremost ex-
plorers and discoverers. He had ac-
cumulated a library of the works of
these foremost men, and had traced
Stanley on every foot of his way
through the African forest. Having
absorbed the accounts of the strange
new peoples and animals encountered
by these daring enthusiasts, he felt a
desire to explore out-of-the-way places
himself So ne said to his daughter:
81 have decided to go for some hunt
come along?'
Miss Alexander's eagerneSS to under
take the exciting trip led to the secur-
9np Of he r11afo hio~
game photogra phs that ever came out
of Africa.
USED AMERICAN-MADE GUNS.
The brave girl and her father were
armed with the lore of Livingstone
and Stanley, and they carried Amer
acan rifles of the best make. To hunt
the elephant and the rhfnoceros with
weapons OF American make was high
1y unusual. When they arrived at
Mombassa, British East Africa, the
people said to them: '.Why, you must
not go into the forest with American
guns, You viii never come out alive.
You must get a, handmade English
gun. No one ever goes to hunt lions
with a nlaehine-made rife Besides,
YOU have soft bullets. Unless you use
hard bullets you will never shoot to
ssll the big game
Unterrified by these warnings, and
confident of the efficiency of the Amer
lean guns, they penetrated the heart
of the wild. The sequel showed the
soundness of their judgment, and of
the gun.
Mr. Alexander and his daughter set
out from their Hawaiian home with
their Winchesters. They We're Joined
In New York by a close friend, Rev.
T. L. Gulick, missionary and a su-
perb shot. He also had his trusty
Both gentlemen had |
some big game to their credit; the girl, !
one deer, slain in the California noun |
tains. In due course, taking German /
steamer from Rotterdam, by the Medi- I
terranean and Red sea, down the East !
Coast, they arrived at Mombassa. At |
that place they began preparations for /
the interior. Now the first fatality that |
struck the expedition occurred. Mr.. |
Gulick. who had proved his splendid !
craftsmanship by killing three ante |
iopes with three shots on his first day |
of hunting, was stricken with fever. !
and his career ended. Alexander and |
his daughter were left to enter the |
jungle alone
A string of native pOrters was Secur-
ed, and they took the railroad for the |
interior. A hunters license fee of $3.50 /
mad been paid to the British Govern
ment. On the route the sight that met |
their astonished eyes was indeed novel. |
From the wiz dows of the train were |
seen the strangest of wild animals. |
Herds of ha~tebeests, gnus, Grant and /
Thomson gazeIles, zebras and ostriches, |
strange African game without number,
returned their curious gaze. Lions and |
Eiraffes are sometimes seen from the
Track There is a Government regu-
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