The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-09-15

way 10 hunt except on foot In that
fashion they all set on, ON their great
Journey of 500 miles. Including the
eighty-mlle trip To- Lake Baringo,
which was their first objective.
IL was the Alcxanders intention 10
visit lake Victoria Nylnza. and after
ward Lake Albert ana the kuwenzori
mountains. The latter lake was cross
ed TO the west OF Lake Victoria Nyan'
za. But first. on foot from the rail-
road, they made the eighty miles TO
Lake Baringo, where they found the
best all-round hunting OF British East
Africa. They stayed there a month.
II was here they got the first rhinoc-
eros andNthe first Gland. They hunted
daily. going out in the mornings AT
noon they piched tent. This was meas
ure of precaution, for regularly as
noon came. a terrific thunderstorm
broke. This phenomenon was the in
variable case throughout their two
months of adventures in the jungle.
At Lake Baringo they found the
largest antelope in Africa. There was
the impalla, an animal of the antelope
breed. With the Gland there was also
the oryx, two varieties of beast that
are extremely rare, even I'm this para
disc OF sport. On their way to the lake
they shot a Grant gazelle.
A strange sight was encountered at
the lake. The young warriors of a
Massai village held a savage dance.
Weird was the spectacle, by the gar,sh
light in the forest clearing. Fantas-
tically arrayed, the young black
braves formed a circle. They leaped
into their places and kept up a Curl
Gus jumping 1t was more athletic
and strenuous than artistic and terp-
sichorean. Jinglng bells were lashed
to their legs below the knee. Tribes
men clapped their hands and kept up
slow chant while the braves exerted
themselves. They continued at this
furious sport for hours.
At this wonderful stand of Lake
Baringo they brought down the
strange hartebeest. a long horned AMI
NAL, and the zebras whose beautiful
skins now lie on the drawing room
floor of the Alexander home in Oak
land.
HUNTING FIERCE RHINOCEROS.
Their rhinoceros hunt was the height
of fierce sport. He Is a dangerous
beast, and does not hesitate a minute
to charge his pursuers. He Is render
ed more foolhardy by his bad eyes.
and makes furious charge, directed
by his wonderfully keen sense of smell
If wounded, he charges instantly. He
possesses great courage. In order to
kill, one must wait till within twenty
yards of the rhinoceros before shoot
ing. Practically the hunter has just
this one shoot. II he does not hit the
rhinoceros in the neck or fore-shoulder,
the only parts where he Is vulnerable,
the savage beast Is on him like light
ming. The expertness of the Alexan-
ders was proved, and their rhinoceros
/, was reduced with their first shot to
sitting for his photograph.
But the porters who had charge of
| their pack train had severe troubles.
| The pack train was charged and rout-
ed by rhinoceros. One of the attend
ants killed an animal. He was i'm
mediately charged by another of them.
| The pair appeared suddenly from the
jungle, charged the train, routed 1t,
and then carelessly walked Off. 1t was
one of the pleasantries of this for
midable beast, which 1t is the ambi-
tion of all hunters to kill. The rhinos
| travel only In pairs. .
| After glorious month spent in this
exciting district. they resumed the
railroad travel, going to Port Florence,
where is the terminus at Lake Vic
toria NyanZa of the railroad, whose
total length Is 5S4 miles The railroad
climbs to an elevation of 7410 feet on
its way to the lake, and passes
through some dense forests of cedar
Itrees The hunters and their pack
train left Lake Victoria Nyanza and
struck out for themselves to the north
| travelling at first through the fertile
well populated Kavarondo district. The
fourth days march, however, brought
them into n wild country inhabited
Ionly by few wandering Maud
hunters, who secured all their game
by means of poisoned arrows. The,
passed over wholly trailless route
and We're frequently forced to stop tc
build their own bridges, where travel.
ers had not passed before. Two days
work was required at one place before
they could cross the stream.
For this second expedition another
lset of porters had to be procured, ant
the party found it also desirable tc
carry fewer provisions, having beer
overhampered on the first. on thi
trip into the wild they were gone on,