Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-07
cas-! AFRICAN HUN||NG|
TRAVELLERS WHO HAVE BEEN
THERE DESCRIBE SPORT
AHEAD OF ROOSEVELT.
RHINocERosEs PLENTIFUL;
LIKE SHOOTING DocILE cows

james L. Clark, Now In Africa, Tells
Of Nearly Being Killed by one-Pho.
tcsraphins Animals Under Difficult.
ties-Returnsd Traveller Found Game
Very Tame.
So plentiful are rhinoceroses in the
part Of Africa to which Theodore
Roosevelt, former president of the
United States, is bound, according to a
letter from there recently received at
New York, that as soon as the hunter
stalks small game he must at once pre-
pare to dodge the attacks Of fierce
horned beasts. Lions also are abun-
dant and noisy.
James l. Clark, until recently con-
nected with the American Museum Of
Natural History, narrowly escaped
with his life in an encounter with one
Of these fierce beasts Of the wild, as
he graphically relates in description
Of his adventures which he has sent to
his former associate, A. e. Butler.
His letter is dated at Nairobi on Feb.
23, and he speaks of travelling along
the Olgerei river, on the way from
Mombasa to Nairobi, in the trails
which the Roosevelt party is to essay.
Mr.. Clark, who Is known as the sculp-
tor-taxidermist, and A. R. Dugmors,
an animal photographer, have been in
Africa for the last four months on an
Independent expedition which has
mainly to do with photographing ami
mails in their habitat.
THE river on which we have camp
ed" writes Mr.. Clark, is dry, and we
have to dig for water, which is fair
after 1t has been boiled. There is lots
Of game in this section. The rhinoce-
roses are especially plentiful, and we
don't dare to stalk other game without
looking for them.
Eve were stalking two Of them the
other day when another, which we had
not seen, came directly for us. We
first saw him at a hundred yards. We
let the other two go for awhile, and
he approached within thirty yards. He
saw us and charged. I shot and turn
ed him, and while he was coming Dug
more got an excellent picture Of the
old brute charging at top speed.
AFTER q few minutes Of excitement,
In which he had to keep moving to get
pictures, the COW of the other two was
turned OF with one bullet, but had to
kill the bull. He fell eleven yards
from where we were standing. It is
very exciting work photographing rhi-
neceroses, because every one we go for
charges on account Of our going so
close to him. have seen some 81
RATES., but they always see us first.
The small game Is as thick as bees,
but exceedingly wild. If you try to
stalk them there are often animals on
the side that Will start the whole
bunch by signaling. The climate here
fs ideal. 1t is never disagreeably hot
and q man can get good sleep.
$50 far it has been like our own
summer weather, and one may easily
Imagine himself in the United States
In fact, the country does not in gen.
eral appearance differ much from ours
We were kept awake the other night
by lions in the jungle near our camp
and in the morning found their tracks
within $50 feet Of our tent"
Mr.. Clark speaks with enthusiasm Of
the variety of game. large and small
which he saw from the car windows
on the Uganda railroad.
1--WE ran across sleeping rhino in
the tall grass" he writes on his return
to Natrobi from an excursion. "Dug-
more got the camera, and loaded the
guns. We were within fifty feet Of
him when he came at US. I let fly q
load OF buckshot at his face, as
wished to make the experiment of turn.
ing his charge without killing him, but
only turned him from me to Dug
more. At ten feet let him have the
ball; then I lodged again and took out
my revolver and emptied the cham
bers into his head. tried for the thin
parts of his skull, but only succeeded
in making him dizzy. He then charged
the Mauser gun bearer, who coolly
took the charge and, lodging, drove
spear into his hide near the heart. The
gun bearer ran, and the rhino got off.
The spear dropped out. We were glad
to see him go, for we We're most of the
time within four to ten feet Of him.
do not want another rhinoceros to
come as close to getting me as that
one did"
Messrs. Clark and Dugmore are by
this time we'll on their way to the In.
terror and expect to camp near one of
the mountains.
In the opinion Of Dana Estes, the
Boston publisher, who recently ar
rived at, New York city after $4,000
mile journey in Europe, Asia and AZ
RIGA, former President Roosevelt will
find hunting big game in East Africa
'lilke shooting cows in back yard
1.-THE antelopes and animals Of that
kind are so tame" he said, that they
Craze along the railroad track and
scarcely look Up as the train goes by.
] saw thousands Of zebras, antelopes.
ostriches, etc. They were within a
few hundred yards Of the train, and
most of them never even so much as
lifted their heads as we went by"
Mr.. Estes visited Uganda. circled
completely around Lake Victoria Ny
ana and pushed in through Rhodesia
to Cape Colony.
GlEre