The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-03-23

OYSTER BAY, March 23.-In the
dry bush plains, the mysterious jun
giles and impenetrable forests of Brit
ish East Africa, where Theodore
Roosevelt and the Smithsonian Afri-
can Expedition will soon begin the
search for specimens for the National
Museum at Washington, there is a
variety of big game and smaller man.
mails that makes this the most won
derful shooting ground in the world
Hours before the American party
reach the Ju-Ja Ranch, a score of
miles north of Nairobi, where the eX-
petition will make its headquarters,
game will be sighted as the train
makes its tortuous way along the
Uganda railroad. There is no shoot
ing allowed within mile of the rail-
road and the sight of herds of grace
AN' Ahp''l" dHCSlOpS VI inc IIdSSlNS
Gland grazing along the line within
only faw miles of the coast, serves
to whet the appetite for the "safari,"
or hunt, to come in the interior.
There is game all along the
da railway, but hunt, to come in the
interior There is game all along the
line of the Uganda railway, but hunt
ers generally go to Nairobi, some three
hundred miles inland. Passing Simba,
where lions may be found, the railroad
enters the Makindu district, a rare
shooting country.
1t is is to the north of JULIA ranch,
though, that all kinds of big game
abound. A flock of vultures, soaring
in the air, tells of a lion roaming in
the dusty plain. These birds wait to
pick the bones of the lions kill. The
country is alive with lions, but few
fear them, as they give man a wide
berth at all times. Only when wound
ed and escape is disputed will the
KING Of beasts show fight. All through
the night the cry of the lion may be
heard in this territory, and it is no
uncommon thing for a party of these
beasts to sit outside of a house all
night and roar. Skins of lions that
nave not been SCARED in combat with
oe- or torn in breaking through the
thorHT rnderErush are rare. Having
obtained a coed lien skin the hunters
Tuard 1t carefully from the ravages of
me white ant, which will destroy a
SKIN in a night. The lion prefers the
plain where his yellow hide does not
contrast with the brush and under
growth.
In point Of danger the natives of
thls territory regard the buffalo herds
as the most dangerous to encounter.
and where travelling party of nor.
ters VIII scarce notice the roars of
lion, the sounds of a buffalo herd
Will send them into a panic. This
much dreaded beast is tricky and
brave. and a huntsman needs all his
skill to make his kill. Wounded. the
puIlalo resorts to g ruse of retreating
into the brush, tempting the hunts
man to follow him. Wheeling sudden
" about, the wounded animal charges
the oncoming hunter, who. unless he
sends a bullet into the brain of tbe
beast, is most likely to be gored and
Irampled to death under the animals
'oofs In hunting the buffalo it is
customary for the hunter to post his
shikaris in the tree tops to inform
him Of the trail of the beast.
The hunting Of elephants is much
restricted in the territory which the
Roosevelt party will cover, and the
Killing of these mammoths is regarded
s little less than slaughter. Modern
lies make the killing of elephants
asy TO accomplish, and without much |
anger to the hunter Hunting for
ippopotamii is also limited, as the
nimal is hard to locate, and only
'und in remote places along the riv-
IS and lakes. The hippo" is timid
I'D not considered dangerous unless
s escape to the water is cut off or
; is wounded. I
The hunt for the rhinoceros in this
sion is no mean venture, for not IN c
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