Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-01

are of very thick leather with double soles and hob
nails with which the thckest kind Of
woollen socks of the variety used by lumbermen IN
Canada The reason why these thick shoes and socks
are worn is because the surface of the veldt is as
hard as ground and the feet would soon blister
If anything lighter worn. The trousers are
usually khaki the lower part of which one wears
leggins. puttees. Light woonen underclothes are
worn at all.
with DR. L. L. Seaman ] left New York about
February l. landed In Liverpool and went to London.
where spent the day In buying express rifles and
other articles of outfit We then went to Marseiles
via Paris where took the Messagerie Maritime
steamship to Mombasa. This required passing TWO
custom houses making six trips in carriages and
stopping az two hotels The next time will go d.
rectly from New York to Egypt and take Messa
gere Maritime boat at Port Said for Mombasa or
make some other good connection in the Meder-
ranean so avoid going through England and
France. The trip down the Messagere Maritime
boat was delightful The food was the best have
ever had a steamship have never met pleas
anter party of passengers all of whom lived in Brit
ish East Africa. The men we met had been shooting
or had trekked about the country. We had talks
about hunting morning, noon and night was made
acquainted 18th the names of every man who had
been mauled by lion or injured by an elephant
In the regions where we going to hunt The ad-
vice that received and the details of actual expert
ence the veldt and in the jungle were more valu-
able tran any knowledge that could have obtained
by reading all the books written the subject
and of the same the campfire talks with the
hunters and guides about the shooting of the day.
Colonial Hospitality.
After landing at Mombasa put up at the
clubs in Mombasa and Nairob attended dinners and
uncheons introduced and given all possible privileges
by those whom we had met on board the steamship
Thus we were made acquainted with people all the
way from Mombasa to Lake Victoria Nyanza, all of
whom showed us the true colonial hospitality. which
is nowhere more marked than in East Africa and
Uganda
"It became apparent that hunting in British
East Africa was conducted on business principles
We had to pay an entrance duty and registration
fee on rifles. On arriving at Nairobi we had to
take out sportsmans license; in fact every one who
shoots has to take license of kind-settler.
traveller whoever it may be-
"The ride from Mombasa to Nairobi corrobo
ration of the stories told by passengers board
the ship. l think truthfuly say that we
between ten and thirty thousand head of game. l
counted herd after herd of animals with from thirty
to ninety in a herd. i could often see from to
two hundred animals at time at low estimate
They principally zebras, hartebeest, Grant
gazele, Thomson gazee. wdebeest and occasionally
a giraffe or wild hog Several ostrches also OBJ
served have also lion. oryx and other animals
Eases nave Deen KNOWN where llOHS nave Deen
killed by hunters who have sighted them from the
train and then got off and shot them. On the other
hand a lion has been known to enter car kill man.
drag his body through the window and devour part
of him behind neighboring bush.
'The other animals of Africa besides the elephant.
lion, buffalo and rhinoceros, that usually hunted
on account oe their beautiful heads and horns the
eland sable and antelope the greater and lesser
kudu the waterbuck, impala, bushbuck and reedbuck
AT Nairobi the hunter goes to the Norfolk Hotel,
where the tariff for him is just twice that of the
tier which is perhaps fair he is not regular
TONER the settler is AS he looks around the din
ing room he in khaki suits and flannel Shirts
men with long hair, with short hair men with
boards. men with smooth faces. There are English
Lords Spanish and Italian Dukes. Counts, and Mar
quises German French and Belgian hunters settlers.
governmental officers, guides and white hunters and
travelling business Among the nobility who
shooting at about the time with the
Duke dAIba and the Counts de Panderand and
Turin cousin of the King of Italy, and cousin of the
Emperor of Germany The Duke d'Abruzzi had been
there the year before.
around the corridors and parlors of the hotel one
sees the heads and horns of every kind Of animal
to be found in that part of Africa Men constantly
going out and coming In from safars Long lines Of
black porters marching by; rickshaw boys are
rushing people up and taking them away; Indians,
Arabs and Somas in all kinds of costumes are walk
ing about.