New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-24
AFRICAN JUNGLE TRIP
Mrs. HeIImann's Experiences on
Route Roosevelt viii Take.
ADVENTURE WITH ELEPHANTS

American Woman Traveller Tells Of Be-.
ing Chased by Large Herd-Greeted
by Lions at Railway Station-Says
Ex-President Has Little to Fear In
Africa.
An American woman, Mrs. Frederic
Hellmann, the wife of mining engi-
neer, has already taken the trip across
Africa which ex-President Roosevelt
will also follow She not only expert
enced no ill effects from the Journey,
| but enjoyed it thoroughly She is the
first American woman to have under
taken this trip
Mrs. Holman made the journey from
Mombasa across the East African pro-
tectorate and Uganda to Gondohoro in
19O7-S with her husband and two of
his friends. They met with no mis-
haps in the jungle but once, Mrs. He'll
mann was chased by herd of wild ele-
plants. She says there were POO in
the herd. She also had slight attack
, ever, she speedily recovered
"Mr. Roosevelt and his party will be
quite safe in Africa" Mrs. Hellmann
said the other night. Really there is
very little danger ii ordinary precau-
tons are taken by the travellers. Wild
| animals Of all kinds are dangerous if
instance, if hunter in tracking a
buck in the tall grass, which is often
fifteen feet high, lion may be stalk
Ing the same game and becomes angry
and turns on the hunter unexpectedly.
In the opinion Of all the big game
hunters l met in East Africa the ma
tive buffalo is the most dangerous Of
the big game and the rhinoceros comes
next. Lions will keep out of the way
OF hunters, as rule, unless they are in-
terfered with In thier pursuit Of game,
| but If wounded they will attack man.
'This was really my second trip to
East Africa. -Four years ago l went
as far as Lake Victoria on the railroad
from Mombasa, accompanied by a
woman companion. One night we were
on the train going to Nairobi when the
/ conductor knocked at the door Of our
compartment about o'clock and
asked us to close the windows as the
next station was reported to be full
of lions. l have forgotten the name Of
the place, but it was not far from Vol
We closed the windows hurriedly, and
| when the train stopped we could hear
| the lions roaring so close it. seemed as
if they were outside the windows OF
| the car. Two hunters came down
from Nairobi next night and shot FIVE
lions in the station yard from the top
! Of the water tank This time we saw
the tracks of lions, but did not see any
! Of the animals.
1T was in the country between Nj
null and Gondokoro that we had our ad
venture with the elephants. Our party
had been warned by some Of the gov
eminent officials we met at Butiaba,
on Lake Albert, that there was herd
Of from 200 to 300 female elephants
and totos Qittle ones) on the road, and
they advised us to give the herd the
| right of way on the road if we met
| 1t. They also advised us TO carry
torches made Of long grass on the road
from Numuli to Gondokoro to keep the
elephants from trampling on us in the
dark.
The first day we left camp at
O'Clock in the morning with lighted
torches, and less than a mile away we
espied herd Of elephants numbering,
it seemed to me, fully 300. We could
see the great cloud of dust they stirred
1 up as they passed ahead Of us.
4 we lost sight of the herd in short
4 time, but while l was waiting under
the shade of some trees for the rear
guard Of our little caravan to come up
heard far off cracking sound and
saw this great herd Of elephants adj
vancing rapidly toward us. With one
look at the animals. shouted to my
companion and, grasping my short
skirts firmly in my hand, ran down
the path to meet the rest Of our party.
But the elephant herd turned aside.
] 'The mosquitoes are very bad on the
trail from Entibbe to Gondokoro, and
nothing will keep them out. You have
/ to brush them off your hands, and
/ they sooner or later inoculate you with
| the germ. of the tropical fever, which
| is common in that part of Africa AL
! our party had 1t in turn. l was laid
up for two days with temperature Of
1O3, and the next day I got up and
/ walked twelve niles
i The most deadly disease in East AZ
RIGA was the sleeping sickness. which
had carried off 100000 natives, Mrs
/ Hellmann said, from the shores Of
| Lake Victoria in the last five years.
With regard to the daily marches
through the jungle along the narrow
1 paths Mrs HeIlmann said that the