The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-16
HUNTING BIG GAME
IN EAST AFRICA
How Elephants, Hippopotami and
Rhinoceroses Are Shot in
the Wilds.
LICENSES AT $3.50 APIECE
Lions and Leopards, However,
Are Free-Big Bags Made
by Americans.
LICENSES AT $3.50 APIECE
by FRANK G, CARPENTER.


British East Africa isy the land of
big game. and Nairobi is the chief
place where hunters outfit their par
ties for shooting the lions, elephants,
hippopotami, rhinoceroses, antelopes.
gnus CRATES and other wild animals
which infest 1T. AS write this letter
several large parties are here pre-
pairing to go out ION safari," as such
hunts are called. The Norfolk Hotel
is filled with them. and behind it are
scores of black half-naked porters and
tent boys. packing sporting goods into
boxes, laying in provisions and arrans-
ing things for the march. There are
head men. rounding up the porters and
giving each his load. There are gun
bearers seeing to the arms and ammu-
milton. and there are the sportsmen
themselves, some clad all in khaki
some wearing riding breeches and leg
gins. and all in thick helmet hats.
In the big yard upon which my hotel
rooms look I can see piles OF tusks,
heads. horns and skins from hunting
parties which have just returned and
in one corner is the baby lion of which
have already written. Among the
sportsmen are several eminent Eng
lishmen. and in the hotel itself are
both lords and ladies. some of the lac-
ter having come out to try a shot at a
lion or so. During this last year two
women have shot lions here and one
of the biggest man-eaters ever killed
in East Africa came down through a
bullet from gun in the hands of an
American girl.
Last Years Hunting Bag.
There is so much game here that
fail to bring back something. The bag
for last year numbered over 5000 head.
and this was shot by sportsmen from
England France. Germany. Austria,
Italy. India, Australia, North America
and New Zealand. Many excellent
shots We're made by Yankees. and some
of the best by an expedition sent out
by the Field Columbian Museum, con-
sisting Of Mr.. v. Shaw Kennedy. Mr..
and Mrs. G. E. Akely and Mr.. E. Hell
Ter. This party started out on the Athi
here. which Just swarms with zebras,
antelopes, gnus and other wild ami
mails, and from there made its way
north and south. 1t secured specimens
of almost every description for the
museum, and shot, among other AMI
mails twelve lions. including magnti-.
cent blackmaned brute. which was
killed on the Molo River. Mr.. Kennedy
himself shot no less than seven lions.
females. He killed also two elephants.
Among other successful parties was
that of Messrs.l Phipps and Havemeyer.
who together shot five lions and killed
score of other kind of big game.
Mobility Out Shooting.
AS to the English hunters, their name
is legion, and those who have recently
been here have included many of the
nobility.
Lord Hindlip who is one of the
| largest landlords of this colony, own
L ing more than 100000 acres. has made
several flying expeditions from his
| country home. and has succeeded in OBJ
tanning two large elephants and a
| splendid buffalo. The Earl Of Cowley,
who came here on his way home from
Ceylon, bagged several water buffaloes
and rhinoceros, and Lord and Lady
Waterford have killed lion, which
| they stalked through the long grass,
| In company with their bearers. Lady
| Waterford was a quarter of a mile dis
J tant when she saw two men clad In
| khaki go down before the charge of
a wounded lion, and could not tell
whether her husband stood or fell. BY
miracle neither man lost his life.
! They were both gunbearers. His lord
ship being off to the side. Later, Lord
Waterford shot an elephant at Moro.
and secured a fine pair of tusks.
| During visit of his royal highness
The Duke of Connaught, now about
two years ago, he made some pretty
shooting over the Kapiti plains. but did
not stay long enough to get lion or
an elephant. General Baden-Powell
was here at about the same time, and
his brother. Mr.. Frank Baden-Powetl
then shot a freak rhnoceros which had
but one horn, and that over twenty
seven inches long Lord and Lady
Montgomery and Mr.. William Mure
! killed five lions. and Mr. NIure got an
elephant with eighty-two pounds or
ivory on his tusks.
Continental Counts and Rarons,
AS to ordinary Brtishers, they have
killed large number OF big game OF
all kinds, and the same Is true or some
or the continental counts and barons OF
lother nations.
The Marquis Pzzardi.' for instance,
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