El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-03-10
FORMER E PASOAN WRITES BOOK
On BIC CAME HUNTING IN AFRICA

in the w:Ids Of the African bush are
thrilling.
lie wes one of the few Americans
who were admitted to the closed terri
tory before the coming of Roosevelt
and his experiences were those OF the
pioneer in hunting big game Permls-
sion was granted him TO hunt in the
British domains of east Africa by the
British protectOrate, and to be IN the
closed country without pass is PEN
Il offence. However, passes are issued
to Americans upon application, as inc
big Game is classed as yermin by the
natives, according to the authors de
scriptiOns.
Stalking Big Game
Stalking big game in the dense Tor
estS where daylight hardly penetrated
even at noon time, treking across the
plains, which he SAYS Were hotter than
Death valley, setting the scamperihg
horde of monkeys off into a chatter
by the breaking of twig, the
experiences of the Ell Paso hunter were
as varied as they were thrilling Nor
were these trips without the element
of personal danger, which gives the big
game hunting its keenest Zest- when
the silence was so deep that 1t was
necessary to hold his breath to listen.
there was not a moment that he might
jungle warrior who could hold as much
lead in his system as a man could carry
in tub, ready to fight for possession
of the path by right of conquest. the
hunting trips into the African wilds
were not as tame as a Sunday schooi
picnic in a dry district
Different Kinds of Shooting.
In some places, the author says. game
was so scarce that IL required exhaust
ing, nerve racking experiences to get
within shooting distance Of big game
while in other localities game was so
plentiful that one might light g Gig
aret and go out and bowl over big
"wildebeeste'' bull before the cigaret
was smoked Sometimes he was in the
midst of thousands of animals of every
kind elephants. rhinOs, Zebras, buffalo
deer, hyena-alI huddled together like
Kipling's Jungle folks before the rain
came. Feasing or rascuL of giraffe
tongue, zebra steak, buffalo tail soup
and elephant chops, the hunter says IL
will be hard to accustom himself to
the meat of the barnyard and range.
Frequently Mr.. Bronson refers to his
experiences in the west, and in one
chapter he describes the work Of break
Ing bronco 10 a saddle as compare
tive sport when considered with Afri-
can hunting. So plentiful is the big
game in this sOcalled closed territory
Bronson says, that the S. P. C. a would
go out of business in that tield IL
they depended upon the native residents
for encOurag cement. as vermin" is the
word they apply TO all of the big game
OF the territory. So plentiful is il
that at times on the Uganda railway,
the author says the trains are blocked
by running into swarms Of the wild ami
VII
On page 207 of the book is a graphic
description of an experience on this line,
when man eating lion jumped through
a car window, dragged away a man
and devoured him.
An Interesting Publication.
The FL Paso authors book, the adj
vance proof of which has been received
here, is a genuine contribution TO the
current literature of the present day.
He has a sense of humor which re-
lieves the tenseness of the strain which
is caused by his thrilling experiences
His descriptions of the great forests
and jungles open new field OF word
painting and alluring, instructive de-
tail
His descriptions of the African rub
Der forest, the people and their quaint
dress and manner, and a typical lion
hunt in the jungle country, are among
his finest descriptive chapters. 1t is in
describing the thrilling incidents In the
jungle that he excels even the SPLEEN
did descriptions of nature and people
Friends of Mr.. Bronson in FL Paso
are awaiting the publication of I'm
Closed Territory" as his experiences in
Africa have been as closely followed
IS have those Of the other great game
hunter, Bwana Roosevelt