The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-10-02
REVELATION COMING
FOR TEDDY
AFRICAN LANDOWNER TELLS OF
QUANTITIES CT GAME IN
TROPICAL LAND.

enormous quantities Of big game in
British East Africa, Uganda and the
lake regions. There's revelation
ahead of h m when he tricks westward
tn Lake Victoria
w. q. Sewafl. explorar. hunter. grad
uate of Harvard. London eiubmau and
owner of 10000 acres of land in British
East Africa, who has come to Sro-
kane to make an investigation OF the
bonanza wheat fields in eastern Wash
inston and oregon. north and central
Idaho and western Montana prelim-
larry to seeding his vast holdings.
made the foregoing remark in the
course Of Il conversation in the rooms
of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce.
He said:
The country is literally packed with
all kinds of wild animals. including
elephants, lions antelope. buffalo, hip
pos. topi. waterhucks, harthcete. Loop
ards and rhinos: in fact. there he will
find sufficient big game tn FIJI every
room in the Smithsonian institute and
several others
Sewall II an interesting person. He
is typical Englishman. and H. as
IdtIltiidT Win the taSiffH hemisphere
az with the western. having a home
i'm Boston. lodgings in London. clubs
here and there between Boston and
Toxic in one direction and Boston and
London in another.
He trekked along the shores of Lake
Victoria less than a year ago. going
also north as far as Lake Rudolph and
west to the remote homes Of the pig
mics. Previously he had hunted in
the Jubaland game reserve and
throughout the Ukamba district. and
there is little of East Africa and
Uganda which he does not know
thoroughly. Earlier he shot big game
in Maine, New Brunswick. southern
California. Alaska. British Columbia.
India. Burmah. Ccylon and in other
parts of the world. He has packed his
outfit around for II years aud when
he heard of good shooting ground
he went to it,
Il am not putting it on a bit he
said. when | tell YOU there is good
sport shooting lions within ride
OF two hours of Nairohi.
Il was in that region in 1906. hut
the sport was altogether too comfort
able and easy for the best fun. Game
fell with so little effort that | made
up my mind to 60 further north.
visited the region about Lake Ru-
dolph, where | passed several months
hunting wild animals
Sewall baggcd his first lion i'm Ru-
mucuti. in the fall of 1906. a few
weeks after he had landed at Nom
hasa and thence proceeded to Nairobi.
In speaking of lion hunting. which
few Americans have enjoyed. he
said:
You see. you goag him into fight.
Not that he Il a coward or anything
of the sort. but he is used tn mind
ing his own business. But when you
chase him around Il bit and make ii
clear Ia him that you are after his
skin, then he whrls on YOU as much
as If To say: now. come on and well
fight 1t out And when he has de-
cided to come h. comes very fast. For
IA short distance there liz no faster ami
NAL in Africa than the lion
While in the mountains of the Moon.
between Entebbo and RuwenZnri.
where the Duke Of Ahruzzi made his
reputation aa Il climber. Sowall reach
ed the conclusion that was the original
home nf the elephant. While on the
trek he stood on All elevation and
counted part of IL herd I'm the under
brush. He stopped at 81. satisfied
that this was his opportunity To pick
out A prize monster. Before lie ended
his attack on the herd he had TIVE
pairs of the best worries which Africa
could produce.
Africa is not only tho greatest
hunting country in the world. but /,
Is also fine ground-floor proposition
There are vast commercial possihili-
ties IN the continent which men oi
business are just beginning to realize
Of course just rs it takes little cap
itai tn 60 hunting there. 81. too. II
takes il capital to make investments
But its "A grand country for both
hunter and investor-thc last frontier
Of the world
Sewail said that great situation
has been created by the building al
the Uganda railroad. adding:
Some railroad lines which are now
either building ar are in plan await
ing the arrival nf construction gangs
include line from Nairobi almost
due north To Fort Hall, which il in.
tended as feeder for the main line
1t will. run into the wheat country
From the Uganda railway a branch
viii run south through my other land
\ third line, which has already beer
surveyed. will tap the timber north
east Of Sairobi. The British govern.
ment builds railroads first and settles
the territory afterward.'
While the Uganda railroad was ty
der construction Sewail acquired Il
square miles of grazing ground fol
the cultivation of cactus. the fiber o
which is used i'll making rope. H.
says the plant thrlves With no atten