The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-22

Big game shooting promises to take
the place of bridge as the amusement
of society British East Africa is, in
fact. the big game hunters paradise
Since the building of the Uganda
Railway tourists can reach the only
where wild animals have been careful
" preserved anc are about as plenti-
full as rabbits.
The tourist can travel by comfort
able steamships through the Mediter-
ranean, the Sue2 Canal and the Red
Sea. and land at Mombasa, where he
finds a modern railway with dining
and sleeping cars and all the other ac-
compartments of civilization. This
takes him to Nairobi. where he is in
the heart of the lion and elephant
country. Leopards are as plentiful as
tabby cats and lions are three a penny.
British East Africa Is on the edge of
a boom as pleasure resort, and David
Garrick Longworth, the proprietor and
editor of the Globe Trotter, a paper
published at Nairobi has come TO
London to start the boom. Mr. Long
worth has had experience in booming
countries as pleasure resorts, for he
was editor of the Sphinx at Cairo for
10 years, and conducted publicity
campaign for Egypt which helped to
make 1t known all over the world as
the ideal place to spend a winter. Lord
Cromer has written to Mr.. Longworth
complimenting him on his, work for
the development of Egypt and the
Khediye has decorated him.
The Globe Trotter, which is Mr..
Longworth's latest venture in journal
ism. is unlike anything else in the way
OF a newspaper that has ever been
published. It's society columns are
occupied with the doings of lions, ele-
plants, rhinoceroses and other inhabi-
tants of the jungle, and what little
space is left after describing their do
ings is devoted to stories about parties
and individuals ION safari.''
Safari, by the way. promises to be-
come recognized addition to the
English language before long. 1t is
quite untranslatable, but any one who
has ever been on a hunting expedition
in British East Africa knows all the
Joy that the word calls up 1t is de-
rived from the Arabic ''msafara,"
which means a caravan but as used
in British East Africa it means big
game hunting expedition with all the
comforts of modern civilization.
The Globe Trotter is full of adver-
tisements by epterprisirg gentlemen
who wish to provide outfits for safari
parties. serve as guides for them or to
sell them mules or. dOnkeys or zebras,
for the tame zebra is almost as familiar
a beast of burden in the safari coun-
try as the horse or ass.
Big game is our staple industry,
said Mr.. Longworth to an Express re-
preventative. You can shoot it from
the windows of the Pullman cars on
the Uganda Railway or from the steps
OF your hotel. which, by the way, is
equipped with electric light. lifts and
everything else that you would expect
in the center of civilization. Occasion
ally, Ii is true, the attentions of the
lions and ieopards are a little annoy
ing; but, after all, that only adds a
spice of excitement to life in Nairobi.
I'VE don't try to hush up such little
matters out there. In fact. our town
authorities make the most Of il when
a lion makes a little raid in the main
street and carries OFF a eoolie. They
want TO advertise the fact and to let
all the world know that there is still
a corner of the earth where all kinds
OF big game can be had for the shoot
ing
: Come they say to the shooter.
Pay US f50 for a game license and we
viii allow you to kill or capture the
following animals:
elephants. hartebeeStes.
rhinoceroses. 1 bongo.
. Appropriateness. , aard-varks.
. zebras. ? cheetahS.
gemshucks. aard-wolfs.
l Gland marabouts.
! sable hippotrages. ? egrets.
! roam hippotrages 10 antelope of GER