Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
August is, 1909.

WhIcn ne sank. lie eXtricatcd him from the Jungle
with some difficulty and said that whereas he looked
like Hamburg steak he had not suffered any
serious injury
Most hunters aim for the brain Of the elephant
while others take the heart shot; then if they do not
strike the heart they usually wound the lungs. If
the elephant away they send Il man after him.
who follows him until he drops, and then he finishes
him and cuts his tusks out In hunting the elephant
the hunter is perhaps in tall grass from six to ten
feet high and may not the elephant until he is
within few yards and then If his hot is nos fatal
it may be hard to get out Of his way. The Duke
of the Abruzzi, who hunting elephants with Mr.
Knowles the Governor of Uganda, had n narrow
escape. He wounded an elephant, charged and
ran the wrong way; that is. into his wind. Mr..
Knowles fired and foored the animal, while two
natives pulled the Duke out of the way.
Notwithstanding the size of the elephant a bullet
from .45O express rife at short range will often
knock him over, even though it does not kill him.
The elephant tusks very valuable, as they some
times weigh over a hundred pounds apiece Profes.
sional elephant hunting has been stopped in British
East Africa and hunter is only allowed two his
license.
The buffalo is said by many hunters to be the most
dangerous animal in Africa; in fact 1 have heard it
stated that he is thirty per cent dangerous than
any other animal Hunters have the most profound
respect for the buffalo and the lion Having listened
to the stories of hunting as narrated by hunters
guides settlers and government officials I can only
form the opinion that people have been injured
by lions during the last ten years than by all the other
animals together The buffalo is very timd, and al
though the hunter may come his fresh tracks
he rarely him except early in the morning at
about daybreak. The best place to hunt him is in
hy country, and it is wise to be a different hill
with valley between 1t is as easy to kill a buffalo
if has broadside shot it is kill bull in the
field, as they very large and of the build. If
ln iC hI1-o tl,p
the buffalo can charge rapidly and follow the hunter
bull does bullf"hter. The hunter must also be
his guard if the buffalo is wounded and away
for he sometimes doubles on the hunter and unex
pectedly charges him from behind At any rate
have never heard of any man being killed by one
whereas the graveyard at Narobi is filled by those
killed by lions.
The warthog resembles closely wild boar and
often has fine tusks. He is very quick in his
mentS, but not dangerous.
The bucks, anteopes of the goat family
Some of them are very large. The elan is magnif
cent animal weighing thousand pounds. The
antelope often carry much lead a rhinoceros
elephant and it is difficult to understand why
they do not succumb more quickly. The best tro
phies however after lion skin are the heads of the
various bucks. One cannot but wonder how it is
that with all the animals shot the vedt and with
all the others wounded that must die so few car
casses or skeletons seen, it is only occasion
ally that you come across one. In order to what
became of my first rhinoceros l went back in three
days to take look at his remains. There moth
ing left of him but his skeleton and a piece of his
hide. The lions had probably eaten the meat, the
picked his bones and the flies had disposed of what
they could find. 1t is probable that the hyenas
would return to eat the bones and that in week
there would be nothing left but few scattered
fragments.
The Jungle Perils.
The insects Of Africa that most dreaded
the jigger, mosquito, tick and tsetse fly. The gger
is a wingless degenerate flea. 1t bores under the
skin usually about the toe nail, and breeds, giving
rise to globular mass which if not removed goes
to suppuratiOn and results perhaps in the loss of
nd and fut Txyo1lyf
perhaps for some time The black boys understand
removing them and pick them out whole with pin
needle. They found about old camping
grounds in hotels and cars.
The mosquito is the own. The bite
of the anopheles causes malaria as it does with u.s.
but usually i'll more severe form. The most dan
gerOus is that known black water fever, which
occurs in debitated subjects suffering from chronic
malaria. In the part where | shooting there
were mosquitoes, but in Ugarde, where 1 went
later. there many, especially on the steamers
and Lake Victoria wanna They were also very
numerous in MOmbasa and the coast and also
the steamers coming up from Mombasa. These
steamer mosquitoes were of the maarial type and
number of the passengers contracted fever board.
The tick is another disagreeabe insect resembling
crab. 1t fastens itself to the surface of the body,
sticks its head under the skin and fills itself full of
blood. After its removal small papule puStue
remains. In Uganda the tick bite fever that
examination of the blood shows a sprillum to be
present as the result of which it is called sprium
fever 1t somewhat resembles malaria in its attacks
1t has complications conditions especially of
the eye and facial paralysis. 1t lasts about two
months and leaves the patient weak and debilitated.
The mortality is very slight.
The sleeping sickness has been known for long
time, but has only lately excited general interest
Since leaving Africa have been asked many questions
regarding this trouble by the people that have
in Italy, France and England. 1t is the result of
bite of form of tsetse 1y that inhabits the
shores of the great lakes, the Victoria Nyanza and
Albert and the streams flowing out Of them, as the
Nile. 1t is said that after the bite the
disease may be from one month to several years
The patient has fever for few days. which sub
Sides only to recur again in few days or weeks
There is also weakness and lassitude. Besides this
the patient has enlarged glands in the neck and a
tremor of the tongue. The stage may last from two
months to a year. 1t Is due to the parasite the
tropozon in the circulation
In the next stage the tropozon has reached the
fluid of the spine and brain and gives symptoms
which at times closely resemble paresis The patient
may be drowsy and apathetc, with later tremor of
the face, epilepc commissions, also perhaps maniaca
The patient grows weak and dies of inanition. Dur
ing the latter part of the sickness he falls asleep
while chewing his food When under treatment
it lasts on average six months in white case and
eighteen months in black. Several hundred thou
sand natives have died and there are now from
twenty to fifty thousand under treatment The treat
ment generally used is arSenicals arsenic and mer-
curry. AtOXy is the form of arsenic usually used
The steps taken to stop the disease to segreeate