New-York tribune., 1909-05-23
DIR. RAINSFORD TELLS OF
HUNTING IN JUNGLE.
Says Pachyderm Is Useless and
DangerOuS-Hc5c He Killed
T1CO at Once.
The Rev. Dr.. W. $. Ralnsford In The Outlook.
T1cO at Once.

arises cutcry dreadful thai take my rlne
quickly from my gun boy. What can it be? Has
a family OF lions cornered a herd of zebra on the
other side Of the rock. is the hideous outcry
the shrill death cry Of the zebra and the fierce
growing Of the lion echoed back by the rocky
walls? It is simply the angry protest Of large
band OF baboons against intrusion. have
often seen baboons before. and IN large troops. too
but never heard their cry. 1t is truly dread
ful 1 think of nothing to lken IL TO but
a fire in a madhouss when the flames might reach
men. women and children at once The smile is
horrid one. I admit but the crying and screech-
ing are worse than anything 1 heard in my
life
Suddenly We come on two rhinos feeding among
the brush. As climb ridge We are close TO
them before either party is aware Of the other
have been scribbling notes ride. but the note
book is now hUrriedly pocketed. Ugly brutes they
surely are and dangerous they ugly Now,
a sporting license issued by the government Of the
protectOrate permits the holder TO XIII only Two
rhinos. Personally, I think this IS mistake All
rhinos should be shot on sight They are com
nuisance-too common hereabOuts-useless for
food. and especially dangerous TO unarmed people
The natives dread them. 1 have in another part
of the country already taken half my allowance
OF rhinos, and neither OF these has the one re-
deeming feature allowed 10 a rhino good horn
they safe far as am concerned-so there
is nothing 0 done but TO round them
But the morning isn't over Yet, and I TO
have another and very sight Of animal
that always seems 10 me one Of the most at
tractiye in Africa. never care to shoot girafIe
As a specimen he IS unnatural unless mounted as
he stands and standing he would look uncouth
unless enc found him some such place TO stand in
as the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington Gle
would look better there, by the way, than some or
the things it,
The giraffe is perfectly harmless; he was never
known hurt any one, and he gets his living off
the upper bcugts of thorn trees, which no one
can reach himself, and nobody else would eat
If he could reach them. To see the CRATES beau
Sl-fr, ring amor
over the fat green thorn trees is surely one OF
the strangest and most beautiful sights the animal
world offers AS he stands and dips and bends
and twists his nine-foot-long neck in and out
sypong the armed branches Of the tree he is grace
personifed.
saw once seven Of these creatures the king.
his harem and his children, all gathered round
one green-topped tree. From seven points Of van
tage they dipped it at once, STOPPING under
unusually thinly armed bough bending on an
other Their necks seemed 10 twist o three
ways at once. / had the good fortune TO be able
very without alarming them-less
than hundred yards-and with my glass could
them a though they were not more than ten
yards away. But when last the treacherous
breeze betrayed U.s. and they plunged into flight
well. could call their movements graceful
The immensely long fore legs thrown for
ward, you a very housekeeping horse some
times throw his fore legs forward, till the hoof,
for the fraction Of q second is pointed straight
out in front. The giraffe makes this motion with
& sort Of Jerk the erd Of Il, though he in
tended in the first instance fling his hoof far
forward he could, and then with sort OF after
thought brings it the ground As it reaches
earth he founders forward with his high shoulders,
and lifts both ungainy hind legs together, lifting
and planting them together or almost together.
There q great antediluvian lizard known
who had brains TO move his body and
another mis- abnormally long tail. 1t
looks though the giraffe. like the long lizard.
needed two brains also, move his hind legs
md afrltl fora 1pCS and vhi
the brains wouldn't perfectly together.
All around Kenia the dry slopes of the Quasi
NyerO. and further &c the northeast in the little
known district Of Meru, once dangerous but now
paciiied. is the chosen home Of the rhno. 1t was
IN marching through the cactus lands OF the Quasi
Nyero that Chanters expedition IN the early eos
tormenteu by their constant attentions.
Lieutenant Won EIohnel terribly wounded by
one OF them and had be carried TO the coast.
The prolonged agony of such journey cannot be
ina gined by any who have been the country.
After Won H0hnel received what almost a
death wound three occasions the porters carry
ing hercely charged by rhinos that they
let fail the unfortunate mans litter and almost
extnguishe1 srark Of life that nothing but his
indOmitable pluck kept alight Three of the porters
killed. it needless panic merely that
made them drop their suffering charge
Only tlls other day my friend missionary
Sctaufaker, came very losing his life in IN
encounter with rhino Schauffaker is pre-emi- |
nently OF peace, ana generally rides more
often walks. his way unarmed. On this occa-
sion ke borrowed mule from another missionary,
for the road he n,ust take a short one |
As he was passing through some thicksh brush |
he was, without warning, incontinenly charged by
g rhino. AS 1 have said, such onslaught is |
usually made with exceeding swiftness and though
his mule swerved tor his life. the cruel horns
pinned him Schauffaker young and very ac- |
tive He threw himself of and darted behind |
friendly bush-al in vain. The furious beast |
crashed through the dense shrubbery carrying !
everything before him. and when Schauffaker came
TO himself he was partly stunned He held his |
hand a small remnant OF his umbrella and a |
cloud Of dust and trailing brush and the
umbrella decorating the beasts horn showed where
the rhno st-n furiously charging away
During the night they seldom trouble the cara |
Van But Mr.. PercIvaie, one OF the game wardens |
appointed by the British East African government
foio me OF an extraordinary escape he had lately.
he had risen about In tie morning and left his |
tent and his companion, who was sleeping in II for
few moments Rhino had not been common in |
the neighborhood for time. There was no /
moon Suddenly, in the pitchy darkness a dark
animal rushed by HIM There q crash: down |
went his tent then another crash followed by loud
cries from his men He rushed back to find his /
friend crawling unhurt from the wreckage and |
all bespattered with jam He was scarcely awake
and quite at less 10 know what had happened |
rs it tOrnado?' said he. Percivale's bed from
which he had risen moment before, was smashed |
20 atoms DC: " jam. crushed by the great |
beasts foot. had exploded Ike bombsheu SQUIRT
ing over everything He called TO his men and was
answered by groans. One them was badly tram
pied and another. bundled up in his tent had
been carried bodily or for twenty yards The
rhinos horn had cut a deep cash in his forehead
otherwise he was ell right.
! have known of a rhino ct night taking hotb
sides Of Nasal mUnyata in full charge and scat
tertng men. women. children and cattle right and
left like q Of engry bees