The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-03-23
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BRITISH EAST AFRICA ABOUNDS
IN VARIETY OF LARGE GAME
THAT MAKES 1T BESTS HUNT
ING GROUND IN THE WORLD.

In the dry bush plains, the mys-
FERROUS jungles and impenetrable
forests of British East Africa, where
Theodore Roosevelt and the Smith
sonian African expedition will soon
begin the search for specimens for
the National Museum at Washington,
there is variety of big game and
smaller mammals that makes this
the most wonderful shooting ground
in the world.
Hours before the American party
reach the Ju-Ja ranch, a score of
miles north of Nairobi, where the
expedition will make it's headquar-
ters, game will be sighted as the
train makes its tortuous way along
the Uganda railroad. There Is no
shooting allowed within a mile of
the railroad, and the sight of herds
of graceful antelope or the massive
Gland grazing along the line with
in only a few miles of the coast,
serves to whet the appetite for the
"safari,' or hunt, to come in the in
terror. There is game all along the
line of the Uganda railway, but
hunters generally go to Nairobi, 800
miles inland Passing Simba( where
lions may be found, the railroad en-
tiers the Makindu district, a rare
shooting country.
1t 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 lion roaming on
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
wounded 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 party
of these beasts to sit outside house
all night and roar. Skins of lions
that have not been SCARED in COM
bat with foes or torn in breaking
through the thorny underbrush are
rare Having obtained a good lion
skin the hunters guard it carefully
from the ravages of the white ant,
which will destroy skin in night.
The lion prefers the plain where his
yellow hide does not contrast with
the brush and underground.
In point of danger the natives of
this territory regard the buffalo
herds as the most dangerous to en-
counter, and where travelling party
of porters will scarce notice the roars
of a lion, the sounds of a buffalo
herd will send them into panic.
This much dreaded beast is tricky
and brave, and a huntsman needs
all his skill to make his kill. When
wounded, the buffalo resorts to
ruse of retreating into the brush,
tempting the huntsman to follow
him. Wheeling suddenly about, the
wounded animal charges the oncom-
ing hunter, who, unless he sends a
bullet into the brain of the beast, is
most likely to be gored and tram
pied to death under the animals
hoofs. In hunting the buffaro 1t 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 re-
garded as little less than slaughter.
Modern rifles make the killing OF
elephants easy to accomplish and
without much danger to the hunter.
Hunting for hippopotami is also
limited, as the animal is hard to To-
cate, and only found in remote places
along the rivers and lakes. The
hippo" is timii and not considered
dangerous unless his escape to the