The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-13
umssng ,he Great Beasts.

4 vigorously told and exceedingly in
teresting story of hunting In British East
Africa In afforded by Mr.. EpaAR BxRcHKR
BnoxaoN in the volume entitled ~ Closed
TsrritDrp a. G. McClurg a Co.. Chicago,.
Mr.. Bronson was three months On his
trip. lie started from \airobi early In
December. IeOS. travelling southwark and
westward. dippiRg into the German pos
session and going ~ far As lake Victoria.
then eastward and northwarh TO l.Ilmbwa
station ON the Uganda Railway. The
whole distance travelled vas something
more than I.eUO nile-.
Though the country that Mr. bronson
tFaverSed In assurehly conntry of -big
Rnme,- he did not find IL a. all an Easy
matter To get az the elephants. One day
the dgns &C these grea, and yet Ging1lAriy
evasive b@asts Were found " he thick
everywhere about. There Were individual
tracks. There wore roads beaten auBOoth
Tor a width u thirty feet. Many trees
from one 20 two feet thick and forty fee,
IT, height lay uprOoted. Giant trees that
stood firm were yet rubbed bare of their
bark and plassered with mud ten feet
from the ground; thes~ meant that the
elephants had had the Joy 81 scratching
themselves RIGHTLY after the soft pleas-
ure IL their mud baths. Rut though there
were these numerous and visible signs
vet there was not onc visible elephant
Tor thrcs days from dawn to dark the
hunters Of Mr. Brnn-on'- caravan secured
the country IN vain.
GA .he fDrIith day word was brought
II a Tig huii eI.uhsnt tw" ho,ir- away
The hunters went after him. ~ noon.
I'm
pIariug sun. they found Themselves
uJ-rn a hillside. The rl-phAr' was down
I-!Dw IN a heavily timhcr-d valley. They
,,,uld h,ar him smashing hush and
-,,Ia-hinE water. They supposed that
there was only On. oi~Irhant. Tor the r.
port had mentioned only one They
,i..-ccn,i.sh cautiously in the direction
- The game The way in which Jungle
hunting l. accomplished - herr vividiy
-, forth We Rad. -Akuns ann IIabia
stripped them .1elvs- of skin wraps. sin-
dals. ns-ck chninr and earrings. of every
thing hat a how and three poisoned
arrows each. and Crypt into the wlH Of
.inr and foliage Outram and !. fol-
lowed by our two gun hearers. ourselves
stripped of everything that cOuld catch,
-rraich or rat;ie. rent in after them
Nv all ~ luck there were no elephant or
other game paths where We entered
Progress naturally was difficult. hut
the Jungle was comparatively cool While
the blazing sun 81 midday shone outside.
the forest was a. dark a. a heavily cur
tanned room. Our progress. the account
soes on. was like swimming through
breakers. waves Of vines and foliage en-
quilting us a. nearly every step. some
times we could not see an arms length
about us. usually no more than ten feet.
and when not corkscrewing ourselves
through vines aud creeper- Ne we're
clamberiug up the ons side and glis~ading
down the other % moss covered and slip
perry fallen Eiants- They came to q much
winding stream which they had to croas
three times in the course of thsiT advance.
AZ length they encountered a solid wall
u foliage. behind which was their ele-
plant. They stiu supposed Il To be one
elephant.
But all az once a. they came to q stop
mighty and disturbing sOunts arose on
all sid~s Of them I, seemed. Mr.. Bron-
son says. - thoagh a tip had b~en con-
vsysd siGnifying that q squadron 81 ele-
phantM nov had the hunters where they
wanted them The sounds had variety
| "a smashing branch here. q mighty sigh
\ Of surfsit there q plash In thu stream. the
suck &C . great foot pulled from the mud
We had says Mr.. Bronson. -innOcently
m~andcrsd into the middle Of a feeding
: herd
! The hu nters stood still. Il seemed to he
the safest plan. Presently they were
treated 60 = still greater disturbances.
Mr.. BronsOn rscords:i a very hell 81
torTnent broke loose on our front. trees
crashing a. 10 they were being IsveIlsi
by a Cyclone. trnmpstinGs shTiIl and blood
! chilling - the storms angrtest voices, the
dull thud Of humping OoIOasi and the
sharp. almost uslAIlie clash Of ivory tusks
| grinding In the mad stampede like the
rnsO of giant swOrCis In deadly play"
The hunters stood fast. -reAdy Ia pump
lad into the faces ~ the ayst corners On
the 90 chance oG turning them" Tho
boy nativea. stripped - ws have aeSn,
wsrs Interesting ~ bOoA - n that tsnss