The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-24
Swapping A4rlca's Big Game
Golfers Photographs r in RooseveIfs Van.
BY A. RADCLIFFE DUGMORE.

cohhers hotosraph IN HooseNeu Nn
w IrH the frstg CLEAN of dawn W e were peering u of the windows in
w search of game. We could see animals moving about in the dim
' light; what they were w could not see, but e were delighted to
know that wild animals could really b e seen from h train windows exactly
Us We had been told. Daylight can with tn rapdity usua in equatorial
regions; and. as the country lighted up. W could scarcely believe that the
sights before III eyes were real
zebras sgnus dukers ostrches were there in herds. SOM scampered
way al the train went by; others stopped and gazed in an interested sorto of
way. Presently there "a a cy OF giraffe" and instantly W e all rushed to
the side of the train. There, mot 1O yards away, stood a huge bull giraffe
not a mangy1ooking specimen such as ont might see in a 90 or circus, but
the trees as 1t watched nj passing train. e We're still within sight when
it turned and ambled away in its peculiarly characteristic gait Writers
have described the CRATES action Is grotesque or ugly. Grotesque it might
possibly be called, but certainly lot ugly or even ungraceful; rather might
build of he nnma1
Fresh herds of animals appeared unusually neal the train. Several times
antelopes woul actually III along the tracks directly in from of TIL engine
and hen bound If to n side, scampering 70 the nearest hill, to survey the
strange putting creature that had presumed % race with them.
1t vas all 90 wonderful to be real 1t was really like going through an
of the restraint Of fences Even when w stopped at the tidy railway stations,
where strangely bedecked Nasal armed with long spears and scanty clothing,
had ~ to rMse our eyes to the surrounding country to see herds Of anteiopes
and zebras grazing OF the sundred grass
Early next morning we started in search Of games scarcely had We gone
a mile from car when we say three rhinoceroses about a quarter of a mile
away. One o theseb big animals is really ute enough to begin with in a
Photographic way but three can be called a crowd, especially when those
three have already got III wind However, W e tackled them, making a big
creuit so as ito get down wind IS we approached We were somewhat discon-
certed by their extreme restle@nes They knew by Jun scent that W e were
lW9 ran Tymsh VAIN TO ppace US AS we We're not more nan ena yarus
away, and there were no available trees, we felt very queer sensations creep
which con,niAelv snoundt he nicture The noise of tbe shutter Startled ta
fully expected they would charge is. as they certainly had III wind. I didn't
focus carefully IN them. Blu the sound If the shutter would undoubtedly
have prectptated a charge so 1 forbore regretfuny enough, as it was a spen-
dido opportunity for a picture.
| had promised that there should be no shooting unless in actual self
noceroses on the hrstd day, SO it was with a feeling Of intense relief that we
80 the excited creatures turn and bolt After going some. distance they
and. finally got within about m hundred yards. when / made several tee
photo exposures before he al off Unfortunately the grass a very deep
excitement for u.s. n W were glad to have cor out of it with n mishap
We had had enough for one day, n ST returned to camp and a good lunch
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