The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-10-07
BIlkINS IN INDIA
The Major Goes Hunting And
Briags Down Two skinss
of the Forest"
FINE DISPLAY OF BLUFF

II 30 small, the Major VIII Hiring
h Back With Him--The Majer
Convinced HI. Companions That
American Nerve 10 the Real
Thing-Bound for China.
Correspondence OF The Caucasian.
Enterprise.
Calcutta. India. Sept. IS. 1893.
hey mentioned the great noun
tain range found In India more than
once since began TO attempt TO give
some inside facts about india. hut
publick interest hex just bin stirred
up afresh. not only here but through
out the world. by the announcement
that an Italian. the Duke of Abruzxi,
hez elibmed to the top ov one oy the
high mountains. though not the
highest. Mount Everest. the high
est mountain here. the tailest In the
world. in fact. IN about 2s.e00 reet
in height. The Duke of Ambruxxi
and hiz party climbed Bright's peak.
which IL about 2i.700 feet In height.
I'D bin thinkin' that I'd climb Mount
Evrest just 10 show them a little
fancy work. But just about that
time the papers got full ov q yarn
erbout Captain Cook havin' bin 10
the North Pole. an l hear he hez
landed at New York an IL maxim a
great stir over hit. A feller by the
name ov Peary awlso claims that he
reached the Pole. They say the
North Pole liz erbout the size ov a
silver dollar. Az neither one oy these
fellers hev brought the pole with
them. not even q little chip or splin-
ter of hit. know they IL a lie out
You cannot convince me that any
two Yankees livin' would spend
years ov time an many dollars in
money ter hunt an find q thing like
that, an find hit an come home
carried In little box no larger than
a match box. Shucks! You Ameri-
cans do love to be humbugged! Me
an Bob air row aboard q ship bound
fer Canton, China. an ] am writin'
this letter az We sail fer I am bound
ter finish up this trip with awi reas-
enable haste an return TO the United
States an without q moments delay
proceed to the Arctic regions an
make a search fer the North Pole.
which / claim hez not yet bin found.
The Creator could hev made a world
with a North Pole larger than a
silver dollar. But did he? He could
hev created two Yankees who might
hev discovered hit an left hit az
they found hit. an whar they found
hit. But did He? / say no. o thou
sand times no. Cooks yarn sounds
fshy. Peary's yarn smells like
spoiled fsh.
Speakin' ov mountain clibin'. q
most interestin' subject. by the way.
| hit liz a fact that almost any strong
man can climb to the top OF Pixies
| Peak in Colorado. which IL q little
more than $4,000 feet high. the top
bein' covered with perpetual snow.
| But hit IL on table land nearly six
| thousand feet above sea level, and
the climber IL partly acclimated be-
fore he starts. The temperature on
top, In summer, the only time ov
year the trip can be made. IL from
20 to 80 above zero. This IL great
change to be sure, but IL not like the
| temperature on the top ov some ov
the mountains In India.-probably
so or more degrees below zero. Up
to 1900 feet man can get along
fairly we'll: above than he can hard
ly exist.
i But I didn't start out to raise an
argymint about the North Pole nor
the wonderful Himalays Mountains.
but to tell something ov our great
hunt near Dayjeeling. which. by the
4 way. liz a famous summer resort
perched upon q mountain 1000 feet
above sea level, one of the foothills
ov the Himalayas. Hereabouts and
nearer to the base oy the larger
mountains liz where the big game,
still found in India. ranges Hef
three hundred millions oy people ali
! crowding the game back. back. clos
er and closer to the great mountains
The white or sacred" elephants ali
plentiful In most sections becaust
the natives will not kill them mol
allow foreign hunters 10 Kill then
allow foreign hunters to Kill them
But the ordinary brown ele
plants. such az you see In every cir
Gus parade. air not sacred. air |
nuisance, In fact. fer one ov then
kin eat enuff to create famine In |
whole district. II hit happens ter 81
outside oy the wild animal range an
into cultivated fields. The tiger
, awlso do a guide deal Of damage 4
some sections. When one goes on
= foragin' expedition he sometime
: will not be satisfied until he eats u
/. several families For this huatin
expedition secured the services o
: two experienced men, Punjab al
) Banerjee. They agreed TO furnis
: guns and game-that II take me {
fla GUIDE game section for a sma
: price. I had In the bargain ths
4 they must be the first to get kiIie
: In ease any elephants or tigers too
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