The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02

For ordinary persons the license to shoot big game in the Sucan costs s2O0, but the freedom of the country will prob ably be awarded to our President, and he will be allowed to shoot without limit such birds and animals as are not on the prohibited list. The laws of the Sudan provide that no one may capture or kill giraffes, zebras ostriches, wild asses or rhinoceroses. The holder of a s200 H. cense can kill two elephants, two elands, two kudus, four buffaloes, four hippo potami and about 90 of the various kinds of gazelles and antelopes. In Abyssinia there are no restrictions on shooting, and there are parts of the Sudan where any number of hippopotami may be captured or killed In addition to big game there are in the upper Sudan large numbers of birds and also wild sheep and small antelopes. so that the hunting is prac- tically unlimited.
 In case the President goes there he will probably charter special steamer at Khartum and live upon it during the in- tervals of the chase.
 Hunting In Uganda.
 Returning to Khartum the President can go via the Red sea to Mombasa, or he can outfit at Khartum and take a lit- tie steamer on the White Nile for Condo koro, more than 1000 miles up the river, and thence on via Uganda into British East Africa The trip by way of the Red sea will take him between two and three weeks, and the Uganda journey will be thrice as long,
 The latter trip, however, is by far the better, as he will have chance to shoot big game all the way. At Gondokoro he will be in d country swarming with hip popotami and crocodiles, and a little far ther on will strike rhinos, elephants, lions and all sorts of wild beasts He should write in advance to the authorities of Uganda for licenses and permission to hunt within the limits of that protector ate; and they will undoubtedly send sol- diers to meet him on the border, while the Sidar of the Sudan will give him an escort and all assistance on the upper White Nile Leaving the ship at Condo koro he will have to go on mules or on foot to Nimuli, a march of only a few days; and there he will get small boats which will take him to Lake Albert in the Uganda protectorate. If he wishes, he can be met at Lake Albert by jinriki- shas from Entebbe; and a couple of weeks will give him time for leisurely run through the protectorate with chance shots at all sorts of big game.
 He will see chimpanzees and colobus monkeys and baboons of all sorts. On the way are great herds of zebras, wild buffaloes and nearly every known type of African antelopes. There are wild asses like those of Nubia and three horned and five-horned giraffes. Sir Henry Johnston claims that there are okapi in western Uganda, and I know that lions and leopards are everywhere to be found There are no restrictions as to hunting lions, and it will be strange if the Presi- dent and Kermit who, ] understand, is to go with him, do not kill several of the Uganda species.
 As to the elephants, they are found all over the country, and a certain number of them may be shot by each sportsman, when properly licensed. The laws. how ever, prevent the killing of COW elephants or baby elephants, and, as general rule. none of the females of the big game can be hunted, killed or captured when ac- companied by their young.
 The party will meet with many rhinoc- crosses and will have to be careful to keep to the windward of them. The Uganda rhinoceros is stupid and almost blind, but it can smell like a bloodhound, and it will charge against the wind. I met one man in South Africa who had shot a white rhinoceros. This was in Rhod- esia, and I am not so sure whether any such are to be found in Uganda. l am told the rhinoceros there is timid and that he will not charge unless he Is shot al. The animals go alone and are seldom seen in parties or droves. They are huge beasts with two great horns on their noses. There is big horn just over the nose rising almost at right angles witn the mouth, with a small horn behind II. The longest rhinoceros horn on record measures almost four feet and some are