The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
The San Francisco Sunday can

We met men who had shot hundred elephants and
none was injured had seen any one injured
hunter with a record of hundred said that one OF
his men in trying to escape from an elephant had
been caught and thrown into the air and came down
on top of some bushes in patch OF jungle, into
which he sank. He extricated him from the jungle
with some difficulty and said that whereas ne looked
like Hamburg steak he had suffered any serious
INJURY
Most hunters aim for the brain of the elephant.
while Others take the heart shot; then if they do not
strike the heart ey usually wound the lungs. IL
the elephant away they send man after him
who follows him until he drops, and then he finishes
him and cuts his tusks In hunting the elephant
the hunter is perhaps in tall grass from six to ten
feet high and may the elephant until he IS
within few yards and then if his shot IS not fatal
one it may be hard get out OF his way The duke
OF the Abruzz, who was hunting elephants with Mr.
Knowles the governor OF Uganda, had narrow
escape He wounded an elephant was charged and
ran the wrong way; that is, into his wind Knowles
fred and foored the animal while natives pulled
the duke out of the way
Notwithstanding the size of the elephant bullet
from 45O express rife at short range Will often
knock him over, even though it does not kill him.
The elephant tusks very valuable as they some
times weigh over 100 pounds apiece. Professional
elephant hunting has been stopped in British East
Africa and hunter is only allowed two on his license
The buffalo is said by many hunters to be the most
dangerous animal in Africa in fact, have heard II
stated
other animal Hunters have the most profound re-
spect for the buffalo and the lion. Having listened
to the stories of hunting narrated by hunters
guides, settlers and government officials can only
form the opinion that more people have been injured
by lions during the last 10 years than by all the other
animals together The buffalo is very timd, and al
though the hunter may across his fresh tracks
he rarely sees him except early in the morning at
about daybreak The best place to hunt him IS IN
hilly country and it is wise to be different hill
with valley between. 1t is easy to kill buffalo
if has broadside shot as it is to kill bull in the
field as they very large and of the same build II
he is wounded however, the hunter must look OUT as
the buffalo can charge rapidly and follow the hunter
as bull does bull fighter The hunter must also be
on his guard if the buffalo wounded and away,
for he sometimes doubles the hunter and unex-
pectedly charges him from behind. At any rate,
have heard of any being killed by one,
whereas the graveyard at Nairob is filled by those
killed by lions
The warthog resembles closely wild boar and
often has fine tusks. He is very quick in his
ments but not dangerous
The bucks, or antelopes, are of the goat family.
Some of them very large. The elan is magnih-
cent animal weighing a thousand pounds. The
anteopes often carry as much lead as a rhinoceros
or elephant and it is difficult understand why
they do not succumb quickly The best tro-
phies however, after lion skin the heads of the
various bucks. One not but wonder how it is
all the others wounded that must die. so few car
casses or skeletons are seen it is only occasionally
that you come across N order to see what
became OF my hrst rhinoceros went back IN three
days to take look at his remains There moth
ing left of him but his skeleton and piece of his
hide. The lions had probably eaten the meat, the
hyenas and JackalS the insdeS. The vutureS had
picked his bones and the flies had disposed OF what
ever they could find 1t is probable that the hyenas
would return to eat the bones and that in week
there would be nothing left but few scattered
THE JUNGLE PERILs
The insects of Africa that are most dreaded are
the jigger, mosquito tick and tsetse hy. The gger
is wingless degenerate flea 1t bores under the
skin, usually about the toenail and breeds giving
rise to gobuar mass which if not removed goes on
to suppuraton and results perhaps in the loss of
toe, and causing difficulties and painful walking per-
haps for some time. The black boys understand
removing them and pick them whole with pin
or needle They are found about old camping grounds,
The mosquito is the same as our own The bite
OF the anopheles causes malaria as It does with US,
Gus is that known black water fever, which
in debitated subjects suffering from chronic malaria.
In the part where shooting there
mosquitoes, but in Ugarde, where went later there
t were especially the steamers and Lake Vic
a toria NJanza- They were also very numerous IN
r Mombasa and the coast and also on the steamers
coming up from Mombasa. These steamer mosqui-
of the malarial type and number Of pas
sengers contracted fever board
The tick is another disagreeable insect resembling
crab. 1t fastens itself the surface of the body,
sticks its head under the skin and fills itself full Of
i blood After its removal small papule or pustuls
remains In Uganda the tick bite fever that
L. on examination of the blood shows spirilunl to be
o present, the result of which it is called sprum
fever. 1t somewhat resembles malaria its attacks
1t has complications nervous conditions Especially Of
{ the eye and facial paralysis. 1t lasts about
months and leaves the patient weak and debilitated
o The mortality is very slight
The sleeping sickness has been known for long
time, but has only lately excited general interest.
l. Since leaving Africa have been asked many questions
regarding this trouble by the people that have met
e in Italy, France and England 1t is the result of
f bite of one form of tsetse fly that inhabts the
shores of the great lakes the Victoria Nyanza and
Albert. and the streams flowing out of Them as the
Nile 1t is said that after the bite the onset Of ths
e disease be from month several