Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-10-07
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MEQuR return the attack,
Hk8H that is, when II has
chance. Unfor-
tunately, noted men, like Col. Roose-
welt, do not get a chance at the game
under good hunting conditions, that
is, when the game is wild and shy
and has its defensive instincts sharp
ened by frequent contact with native
and European hunters.
In these days the Colonial African
governments have game reserves
where the animals are quite tame on
account of never knowing what II is
20 be hunted. These reserves are
thrown open to important and titled
travellers who walk up to an animal
that generally stands and looks in
half.fearful wonder at the strange
white human being, who could hit It
with walking stick II he liked. After
the game is run into a corner the
important parsonage is handed a dou.
BILE barreled express or a 35 caliber
Auto-loader, which he henceforth
empties into the surprised animal,
which, not being used to such harsh
treatment, generally drops dead. This
kind of animal murder is disguised
under the word sport"
Hunting is killing and 1t will never
be anything else, but the way certain
prominent personages who have re-
Gently visited the Dark Continent
have excused their methods by sur
rounding their deeds with the glamour
of danger that is purely fictitious only
enlarges the fact of the lack of the
real danger in their undertakings.
Their invented adventures were built
up on the real experience of men
who hunt for a living and are not
allowed to shoot protected" game.
If the Englishmen who are enter
tanning Col Roosevelt succeed in
leading him to adopt the methods of
English and Moors and employ beat
ers to drive animals which are tame
through dissertation with the dan.
gers that they would have to daily
face off a reserve, then / am sure the
ex-president is in for a disappoint-
ment and he viii return to America
without having experienced the thrills
he expected on the African weld. |
recently saw some very extraordinary
killings on one of these reserves that
were tame, and lacking the slightest
risk, which became terrible adventures
by the time they reached the London
press, which is always partial to any
one with a title, of either British or
other nationality Most of these gen
tlemen and even ladies are famous in
the social line in London or one of
. the other capitals and therefore must
be famous hunters as soon as they
get rifle into their hands. A good
deal of the stuffed game and trophies
they take back to their homes from
the tropical iungles is bought, like
the fish of the famous and well worn
Joke. from a man who makes his liv-
ing by selling them to disappointed
sportsmen who are ashamed to re-
turn to their friends empty handed.
Hunt Giraffe with the Sword.
have taken part in a number OF
animal butcheries myself most of
which were associated with giraffe
hunting, perhaps the tamest sport that
can be had on the weld with the ex-
ception of shooting lizards.
Notwithstanding that the giraffe is
the most harmless and inoffensive of
all the African game, great amount
of sport can be had hunting it, with
the sword instead of the rife. This
sport in spite of the harmless nature
OF the giraffe. is not always without
its element of danger.
Shooting the giraffe gives merely
the suspense that one gets by the
possibility of the animal getting the
hunters wind and making away be
fore the fatal bullet can be driven
home.
The defenses of the giraffe are It's
wonderful sight, due to the way the
eye stands out of the head, giving II
a wide field of vision, its long watch
tower of a neck and its fleetness OF
foot when pursued.
/ have killed and hunted many ami
mails in Africa, but confined myself
TO the ordinary way of stalking the
animal with a high power rife, and
It was not until / went up to the
waters of the Bahr el Ariad and BahI
ell Azrik, as the White and Blue Niles
are called in southern Egypt, that
enjoyed a real lively and somewhat
dangerous giraffe hunt, at least it wai
something more than mere anima
murder.
was hunting along the AbyssiniaT
frontier when | got into touch with {
party of Hamran sword-hunters. These