Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15

eyes out in her rage. and in fear hurled
her to the ground. She was badly hurt.
for a cry of pair escaped her. and she
crawled to her ably. and. crouchins over
il. protected it with her body. The little
one seized its mothers breast and sobbed
like child. They both looked at me. and
if ever helpless eyes PRAYED for mercy.
theirs did They sent a message to my
heart, and, looking around SO thai the
natives would not see MY weakness. I
stroked the mother and babe. She was
either too weak to resist. she knew
her prayer was answered. for she merely
murmured. I took her to the camp and
cared for her. and when she was better
she would not leave me- We became
great friends, and one day | took her
10 the forest and left her and her precious
baby for | could not keep her prisoner.
The natives. always superstitious. said
she had bcwitched me.
As far as I remember. | think never
ate monkey flesh again. | seldom hear
baby sob that | do not think of my ex-
perience in the forest. To catch mon
keys alive. we adopted an efficacious
though cruel means. which was 20 camp
under the trees that were laden with the
nuts that the monkeys live on. The mon
keys always curious, would crowd into
the trees and size us up with great dc
liberation. When one offered good shot
/ took my little .21-caliber enlington ana
fired so that I would wound it.
When We got our wounded monhe!
We would tie it to q. log and set ont
teet traps in u circle hidden by the
leaves. around our captive. The cap
trred monkey would cry for hours TIL
it brought others of its kind around II,
who were always willing to help their
friend, for the most unselhsh thing IL
the world is wild monkey The re-
suit would always Re tie same. We Wouiu
eaten from ten to a dozen of the monkeys
in our traps and after Il struggle ard
llypodermic injection TO stupefT 'henl,
they would be put into : cage and trans
ported to the coast.
In the west and northwest of Abyssinia
and in the Soudan there are natives
who make a business of monkey hunt
ing. which they carry on all the year
round, shipping each catch down the
Nile or taking it by caravan Ia the
Somali coast. where the German East
African steamship line picks it NJ.
After getting my monkey hunting ex-
periences in the Konso and South Africa,
the way the Soudanese ard the Abyssin-
fans made their captures surprised me,
not so much by their methods but by the
number thev bagged at one scoop
TO give the reader an idea of the me
thods of these hunters, T shall describe
my own experiences with them. while
on a hunting trip in northwest Abyssinia
My servant woke me as the sun shot
it's first golden rays over Lake Iana
and down the long tangled sandy main
road that divides the low hutted town OF
Dengleber and leads west from the
waters Of the lake to all the villages
and camps that spot the yellow desert
sands on the trail of the setting sum- even
as far as Timbuctoo. 1t was beautiful
crisp morning, the sky was deep anne
tbyst and gold over the turquoise waters
of the shallow lake. Up the street from
the shores OF the lake, casting long shad-
ovs before the rising sun. came the
camels Of the caravan. Whitehead Abys-
sinian at the head Of each. Before my
hut they halted. and. finishing my break
fast of dried waterbuck meat. / mounted
A camel and at the word Of A native We
all started toward a forest that clad
some hills to the northwest of the town,
about a days ride By camel.
We pitched our camp and the next
morning the natives Went out and chop
ped down the trees around the water
holes where the monkeys drank. For
four days they did this and at the end
of that time all the water holes. with
the exception of one, were covered with
the fallen trees. so that the monkeys could
not reach the water. By this means mon