The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-04-09
AFRICAN HUNTING GROUNDS.


In the dry bush plains, the myster-
ious iungles and impenetrab BILE forests
of British East Africa. where Theo-
dore Roosevelt and Smithsonian AZ
riean Expedition will soon begin the
search for specimens for the national
museum at Washington. there is a
variety of big game and smaller
mammals that make this the most
wonderful shooting ground in the
world.
Hours before the American party
reaches the JULIA ranch a score of
miles north of Narirobi. where the
expendition will make its headquar-
tiers. game will be sighted as the train
makes its torturous way along the
Uganda railroad. There is no shoot
ing allowed within a mile of the rail
road. and the sight of herds of grace
full mpala antelope or the massive
Gland grazing along the line within
only a few miles of the coast. serves
TO whet the appetite for the .safari.
or hunt. To come in the interior.
There is game all along the line of
the Uganda railway. but hunters gen
orally go To MARRIOTT. some three
hundred miles inland. Passing Simba.
where lions may be found, the rail
road enters the Mankindu district, a
rare shooting country.
In is TO the north of Ju la ranch.
though. that all kinds of big game
abound. flock of vultures, soaring
in the air tells of lion roaming on
the dusty plain These birds wait TO
pick the bones of the mons kill. The
country is live with lions. but few
fear them. as they give man a wide
berth al all times. Only when
wounded and escape is disputed will
the king of beasts show fight All
through the night the cry c the lion
may be heard In this territory and il
is no uncommon thing for party of
these beasts 10 sit outside of a house
all night and roar. Skins of lions
that have not beeB SCARED in combat
With foes or torn In breaking through
the thOrny underbush are rare
Having obtained a good lion skin the
hunters guard il carefully from the
raVages of the white ant, which will
destroy a skin in a night. The lion
prefers the plain where his yellow
hide does not contrast with the bush
and underground.
In point of danger the natives of
this territory regard the buffalo herds
as the most dangerous to encounter.
and where a travelling party ofporters
will scarce notice the roar of lion
the sounds of a buffalo herd will send
them into a panic. This much dread
ed beast is tricky and brave, and a
huntsman needs all his skill 10 make
his kill Wounded the buffalo re-
sorts TO ruse of retreating into the
hush. tempting the huntsman to fol-
low him. Wheeling suddenly about,
he wounded animal charges the on
coming hunter. who unless he sends
a bullet into the brain of the beast.
is likely 10 be gored and trampled 10
death under the animals hoofs In
hunting the buffalo IL 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 regard
ed as little less than slaughter.
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elephants easy TO accomplish and
without much danger 10 the hunter.
Hunting for hippopotamii 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 timid and not considered
dangerous unless his escape to the
water is cut on or he is wounded
The hunt for the rhinocerous in
his region is no mean venture, for
not infrequently the hunter is hunted
and the angered beast breaks mp a
whole ''safari" party with one of his
terrible charges. The "rhino' is very
nearsighted. but is possessed with
remarkable sense of smell and acute
hearing; in fact, his attack is entirely
guided by these senses. Seeming
danger from afar. the Infatuated ami
nal charges in a straight line tramp
ling down underbnsh and small trees
in his path as II he were making a