Evening star., 1909-06-13

by charging 30 pounds sterling $3.50 a
year for a license, which allows the
hunter to kill two each of the pachyder-
mata and from two to ten of the various
species of anteopes This does not pro-
tect the game. but it fills the local treas
uries. Added to this is the price for por-
ters. shiparees. headmen. etc. who have
to accompany the hunter. The average
expedition is made up of from thirty to
thirty-tive natives for each white man.
The cost of equipping and maintaining an
expedition is from 500 to $3.50 a month
for each white hunter, according to the
district hunted In. One we'll known con-
Germ with headquarters at Nairobi, that
makes a business of hunting and expedi-
tion managing. equips and maintains an
expedition on the field for 5000 a month.
supplying everything excepting arms and
liquor.
Of course. when Mr.. Roosevelt hunts
his expedition will hunt for everything
his license will allow him to shoot. 1t
from a financial point Of view; there his
equipment will probably be more costly
than a professional one. but no better
than the average sportsman uses IN
Africa For instance. he will carry a
taxidermist's outfit and cure and preserve
his game Immediately after it Is shot.
AS soon as lion or leopard is killed the
skin must be removed. cleaned. and treat
ed with a taxidermic preparation of alum
Then, to protect 1t from beetles. it must be
Soaked in turpentine and put in charge OF
a native runner. who takes it to the near
est post for preservation. Often when a
skin arrives at it's destination the numer-
Gus insects that infest the country have
eaten it full of holes and 1t is absolutely
worthless.
Speaking Of carnivora and the other
fauna Of Africa. let me say for the bene-
fit OF the American writer's, lecturers and
artists who wish to pretend to know-
edge OF African animal life that there are
no yaks, alligators kangaroos. turkeys,
bears or tigers in Africa outside of cir
Gus or geological garden. There are two
species Of rhinoceros. the bicornis or pre-
hensile-lipped, and the sinus or square
mouthed rhino The latter, although al
most as black as it's relative. is called the
white rhinoceros on account OF blue,
saty tinge in it's skin. To be exact, there
is no such thing as a white rhinoceros.
Both have two horns. The Aslatc rni-
gators differ greatly in appearance, and
the latter do not live in Africa. The
Asiatic elephant Is also different IN ap-
pearance from its African relative.
Now about tigers, which have been
treated SO freely as African game in re-
cent American articles. 1t all depends on
ones nationality whether or not there are
tigers in Africa. The leopard Is called a
tiger tiger) by the Boers, ana SO IS the
cheetah. just as a panther is called
tiger in some parts of the United States
The striped animal which Is zoologically
known as a tiger tigris regalis). and
which is the animal referred to in num-
ber of recent stories, does not make its
habitat in Africa, as the writer's seem to
think So when a traveller speaks OF
lions. leopards and tigers seizing passen-
gers from trains he is generally writing
at long range with a misinformed imag-
ination instead Of facts. He makes a
double mistake II he speaks Of tigers and
leopards'' in referring to African fauna.
as in Africa they mean the same animal.
l have never heard an Englishman or
Boer when speaking English call leop-
ard a tiger.
The most dangerous hunting occurs
when one attempts to capture his animal