The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-28
HUNTERS OVTRUUH AFRICA
COZ. FLEISCHMANN REPORTS
THE PLACE CROWDED.
TWenty-seVeR nig Game Parties ont
Hhen tle LETT There IIls PaFty went
Toward the AbyuslBlAn BsFder They
Get tire Few Trophlrs IIe wanted.

Col and Mrs Max Fleischmann 81
Cincinnati got back Yesterday on tho
Mauritania from a three months eHpedi-
ton 10 British Fast Africa. The Colonel
said yesterday az the Wolcott that the
trip had not been made just for indis-
criminate shooting. but he had special
ized, being only after certain animals
that he did not get on a previous trip. He
did not get into the same shooting country
in which another famous Colonel killed
40 many animals. That par; Of the world.
he says. Il simply overrIn with Euro
peans and Americans who are after big
game
Twas told that the game in British Fast
Africa IL being hurt tremendously. said
Col Fleischmann. There were some
thing like twenty-ssven soiar parties
on the hunt when was in the country.
They send the tourists 10 the country
whore game has been 40 very abundant.
and the personally conducted big game
hunting party has become quite a feature
Of tho country
with Mrs. Fleischmann and myself
was Capt Black. an EnGlishman who has
been in Africa for sirtoen years We
pushed out from NairObl. but our course
was toward tho Abyssinian frontier. In
all W. covered during the three months
about ! 900 miles. got what ! was look
ing for. an elephant and rome good notata
and other animals OF the antelope family.
twelve spScies In all. hut W. had no won
derfh adventures Mrs. Floischmann
shot several small antelope.
We were ont on the sofai ninety
days, mostly in desert country. II was
hardly a shooting trip wedid not 80 an
abundance Of game. We had to hunt for
IL. and az the game was In bush country
Il was dificult 10 find H. The elephant
was not hard TO ct after he had Once
been seen. Il only took a shot through
the eve. But he was a magnificent speci- |
men. One tusk weighs iOc and the other
iOs pounds The game that provided the
most sport were the small antelopes.
which We got with shotgun, and used for
food. They hop over the bushes like big |
jackabbits
'As for our outfit. we started out with !
men. but by the time We Eos |
10 the desert We had weedeed them out |
10 tWenty-One. However. we sent 70 !
Neri for fifty others 70 70 70 GuasOnyere
10 make a food base Tor M and we began |
the desert march with twenty lone men |
aud twenty -four mules But the hitter
began 10 die. and f0rcsseing this the
Government had sent men ahead 90 get |
lIH csmels. We came back from Marsobi. |
where We rested between two and three
weeks, with camel transport. On the way /
We ran into the Duke Of COnnaught's
sOfari and traded some u our extra food
for dOnkeys
About the only really unusual expert
sncs we had was In crossing the desert.
Each way we had one stretch Of thirty
,iK miles aud another Of Exty-seven.
We had 10 leave our camping outfit be-
lind and slept at night la the open. The
irst stretch we covered IN two marches.
practically inside a day On the second
Se marched from A. NJ. until noon and
hen restel until sP NJ. when We made
another start and kept going until ?
4 NJ. Then there was another rest until
~ A. ~. when the march continued
Until SJp IN the afternoon. though some
4 our soiari did not straggle in until
Ihout ~ o'ciock that night We did not
ose a single man on the jour ney either
way.
Coming hack we ran entirely out Of
Ehite bread We ate our last loaf two DAYS
.ciore We got ont Of the desert. on Mrs.
birthday. II did duty a. a
birthday cake In our march We really
,Ot four or Ave days journey into Abys-
mia. We saw at MarsObi five prisoners
a irons. who had just been captured.
hey were tall. hne looking men. Of a
opper color. One wore a black name lion
sin about his shoulders We were told
nat their raiding parties usually number
We IL they capture white men during
lese expeditions the report is that they
AXE them back into Abyssinia and make
.avea Of them
Col FleiSchmann said he had heard that I
]. {. FTiok's son had shipped from Nom
asa seventeen tens OF trophies obtained :
y his party.