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

Roosevelt, do not get chance at the
game under good hunting conditions. that
is. when the game is wild and shy and has
lis defensive instincts sharpened by fire.
Guent contact with native and Euro
pean hunters.
my these days the colonial African gov
ernments have game reserves where the
animals are quite tame on account of
never knowing what it is to be hunted.
These reserves are thrown open to i'm
portant and titled travellers, who walk IN
to an animal that generally stands and
looks in half-fearful wonder at the
strange white human being, who could
hit 1t with walking stick if che liked.
After the game is run into a corner the
important parsonage is handed a dou-
ble.barreled express or q 30 caliber auto
loader, which he henceforth empties into
the surprised animal, which, not being
used to such harsh treatment generally
drops dead. This kind of animal MUIR
der Is disguised under the word sport .
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Hunting is killing and it will never
be anything else. but the way certain
prominent personages who have recently
visited the dark continent have excused
their methods by surrounding their deeds
purely fictitious, only enlarges the fact
Of the lack of the real danger in their
undertakings. Their invented adventures
were built up on the real experience of
men who hunt for living and are not
allowed to shoot "protected' game
If the Englishmen who are entertain
ing Col. Roosevelt succeed in leading
him to adop; the methods of English
and Moors and employ heaters to drive
animals which are tame through dis
lnr
would have TO daily face OFF a reserve,
then | am sure the ex-President is in for
a disappointment and he will return to
America without having experienced the
thrills he expected on the African weld.
recently saw some very extraordinary
killings on one of these reserves that
were tame and lacking the slightest risk,
which became terrible adventures by the
time they reached the London press,
which is always partial TO any one with
title. of either British or other national
ity. Most of these gentlemen and even
ladies are famous in the social line in
London or one Of the other capitals and
therefore must be famous hunters as
soon as they get a rifle into their hands.
A good deal OF the stuffed game and
trophies they take back to their homes
from the tropical jungles is bought, like
the fish of the famous and we'll worn
joke. from man who makes his living
by selling them to disappointed sports
men who are ashamed to return to their
friends empty handed.
have taken part in number OF animal
butcheries myself, most Of which were
associated with giraffe hunting. perhaps
the tamest sport that can be had on the
weld, with the exception of shooting
lizards.
Notwithstanding that the giraffe is the
most harmless and inoffensive of all the
African game. a great amount of sport
can be had hunting 1t. with the sword
instead Of the rifle. This. sport. in spite
of the harmless nature of the giraffe, is
not always without its element of danger.
Shooting the giraffe gives merely the
suspense that one gets by the possibility.
of the animal getting the hunters wind
and making away before the fatal bullet
can be driven home.
The defenses of the giraffe are its won
derful sight. due to the way the eye
stands out of the head. giving it wide
field of vision, it's long watchtower of a
neck and its fleetness of foot when pur-
sued.
l have killed and hunted many animals
in Africa, but confined myself to the ordi-
nary way of stalking the animal with a