The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-19

Africa under peculiar circumstances.
AS no one saw the happening 1t is
hard to say how it exactly occurred,
We were hunting for specimens for
a German museum When we reached
suitable hunting grounds we camped
and set out daily in different direc-
tionS in small parties, a German sci
enlist accompanying each. One morn
ing a Shikaree came in with the news
that the weld little way to the north
was covered with game. The hunters
with their rifles and the scientists
with their notebooks and cameras set
out, making a wide detour. We d.
vlded into parties. shikaree at the
head of each, with the exception of
those rSo which van Reenan and my
self commanded. We soon reached
the game. There seemed to be thou
sands of every variety on the weld
Huge Gland, beautifully striped zebras,
hartebeest. impala, koodoo, gemSbok
springbok, in fact there seemed TO be
congress of all the antelope In AT
RIGA
On the outskirts near a clump of trees
number Of giraffe lowered above the
rest of the animals. Van Reenan set
out in their direction and the rest of
us waited till the other men started
shooting on the opposite side of the
weld thus driving the herds in our di-
rection-
After long. tiring wait of four
hours. the cracking of rifles In the
distance brought lis to attention and
told us that the work OF death had
, commenced Every head on the weld
was raised; every animal, for a sec
ond. was still and silent as a statue
Then, with one accord, they turned
ard came galloping toward us, the
ground trembling under the thunder
of their hoofs.
With the magazines of our rifles full
we waited till the animals came into
good range and then opened fire. The
din was frightful, the thunder Of the
hoofs, the swirling dust, the rhythmic
bang of the many rifles. and the
whistling of stray bullets made yeri-
table battle scene. One after anoth-
er we picked out our living targets
and down they went. the stampeding
mass of life behind falling over them
In struggling confusion.
At last the tail end OF the herds
galloped past, leaving a few wound
ed stragglers enveloped In the dust
burdened air. We gave our burning
r-i0 ,nin he
our faces and surveyed the results Of
our bloody attack.
The Cheetah and Van Keenan,.
The weld was spotted with car
casSes. and here and there an animal
struggled in pain from a cruel, dis
ablng wound. The hundreds OF ma
tives with the expedition poured over
the weld and commenced skinning
The scientists took measurements and
photographs, and by night the hides
were all in camp
When the bugle blew at meal time
van Reenan was missing. / ques
toned the natives. but none had any
news of him. We lit huge fires to
Buluc Illn lo tilc CAMP lUeIc NdS ITO
possibility of his being lost, for he was
Boer and knew the weld like Kaf-
fir. All night we expected him TO turn
up at the camp. The lions and leop-
ards roared. the hyenas laughed,
jackalS snarled and a\thousand dis.
NAL howls made night flendish, as the
animals fought over the carcasses left
after our hunt
Daylight broke on a disappointed
camp and at once searching parties
werS formed to find the missing hun
ter. l made for the spot where I had
seen the giraffes before the hunt,
knowing that van Reenap had gone
in that direction to get q shot at
them. After getting to the place and
searching a little ! discovered the
body OF my friend with dead chee
tab across It, or course, can only
guess what happened
! examined his rife and found only !