The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-02-11

makes only small hole when en-
tering the side of an animals, but
"mushrooming" on impact. cuts
on its exit a hole sometimes as
large as a Cocoanut.
But the chief reliance for jungle
work is likely to be the double
barrel English express rifle. This
rife ranges in weight from 10 to
IS pounds. with a bore of ST. of
an inch i'll diameter. While it is
not positively known that the
president and his party will be
equipped with these rifles, yet it
is more than likely that they will
be, since all of the big game hunt
ers unanimously agree that it is
the most dependable OF all weapons
when at tlose quarters with big
game. But even this formidable
double-barreled piece is sometimes
inadequate to meet the sudden
exigencies of big game hunting in
Africa.
One Of the most indefatigahle of
all the big game hunters, and who
had hunted Africa from one end to
the other, recently gave it as his
opinion that the rhinoceros is by
far the most dangerous animal
that can be found in the dark con-
tinent. In Equatorial Africa, 4"
he said, you will find the rhi-
nOceros almost everywhere, in the
high land and in the low land, in
the open country and in the brush.
You will find him when you least
expect him and most often when
you do not want to see him. He
is vicious and heavily armored
beast, almost the exact color of
the earth which you find out in
that sunbaked region, and when
stalking through his habitat,
wholly unconscious of his presence,
you suddenly hear his ching
chugn then God help you if you
are not provided with a rife of
large caliber and carrying steel
bullets.
You will want some steel in
your nerves, too, for the brute
usually weighs about 8 900 pounds,
and his rush is like that of a loco
motive. Now, your rifle may be
of the biggest caliber, and your
bullets of the hardest steel, but no
matter how many you pump at
him you could no more stop his
rush by this means than pop
gun would stop a battleship. The
heaviest of steel bullets could not
reach a vital spot. after going
through that great bone snout,
and it would require an extra hard
one to cut through it at all. Your
only chance is to do swift side
step, and even then you have on
/ ly three shots that will count-the
brain, the neck and the heart shot.
When he charges head on it is inn
possible to reach any one.
The presidents present plans
contemplate a journey to Alexan-
dria by the North German Lloyd
line and thence to Mombasa, the
capital of British East Africa,
probably by one Of the vessels of
the German East Africa line.
From Mombasa the party will
travel.by the Uganda railway to
Lake Victoria Nyanza and, cross
ing that stretch ofwater by steam
er, will seek the plateau of the
Uganda, sand where abounds more
game than can be found anywhere
else in the world.
But along the railway route
from Mombasa to the lake plenty
Of game is to be found. One who
recently made the journey, thus
describes it:
Some three or four travellers
how leaves the train and make
their way to the dark bungalow,
and by the look Of their impedi-
mente they are evidently sports
men bent on big game shooting.
mendatlons. In that way the
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