The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-01-24
RAINEY TO HUNT
IN AFRIC W|LDs
Young millionaire Drops Arctic
Sport For Awhile,
WILL Be AWAY TWO YEARS.

Intends Running Down Lions With
Bear Hounds and Moving Picture
Machine-PIans to Invade Country of
Man Eaters That Has Been Seen by
but One White Man.
From Greenland's icy mountains to
India's coral strands. from the white
wastes of arctic Annatok to the sun
bleached plains Of Golbo. in British
East Africa, Paul j. Rainey, million
aire yachtsman. turfman, polo player
and society man, is going a-hunting.
His return in the vessel he chartered
to take him and Harry Whitney to the
polar regions after big game was only
a little more than month behind him
when he returned to New York after
a few weeks hunting bear on his Mis-
sissippi plantation.
Yet the call of the wild is so strong
In his ears that he can scarcely wait
TO shake the dust of Fifth avenue and
Newport from his feet and HE away
to spend two years in the unexplored
jungles OF the dark continent.
For Mr. Rainey aims to be a nimrod
In an original fashion, and since he
has taken up hunting as steady oc-
cupation, so to speak, he has come
mighty near to realizing this ambi-
ton.
Into Unexplored Lands.
On March 3 Mr.. Rainey, accompa
MED by Dr. NJ e. Johnston, who was
with bis expedition as physician in
the arctic: Hunter" Black, confrere
of Setous and Cuninghame; e. R.
Shelly, overseer of his Mississippi es-
tate, and moving picture man, will
leave London for Mombasa and few
weeks later will be blazing his own
trail through the Golbo plains country,
practically unexpfured region seT-
erai hundre1 miles north of Nairobi
and much farther into that darkest"
interior than the Roosevelt party ven
tured.
They are going across one Of the
African deserts straight into the coun-
try Of the man eaters. a territory
whose edge has only been visited by
one white man, Colonel Patterson,
who wrote of his travels in a book call
ed 1.-The Grip of the Niaka" For a
trip which on appearances might be
regarded as the pleasure quest of
young man whose father left him $780,
100000 Mr.. Rainey's expedition is
one of the most pretentious ever plan
ned, for unless he meets with some
misfortune, such as being stricken with
jungle fever, it promises to add ma
terially to the record Of explorativa
achievement and the science of ZOOS
gy.
Valuable TO Science.
Zone of the most interesting things
I plan to do" said Mr.. Rainey. lis to
hunt lions with bear hounds This
win be practically an original under
taking. understand Buffalo Jones
tried ii, but don't believe be thought
much of the plan-anyway, I don't
think he persisted in it. But believe
it viii reVolutionize lion hunting
Mr. Rafney's sofari, or caravan, will
be one of the largest to start from
Uganda. He win have 100 native por-
tiers, more than dozen head of cam
els for the passage of the desert and
ponies and mules for the pack trains.
These latter are Of particular breed
which are not affected by the sting Of
the poisonous tsetse fly.
Some of the Perils.
"The chief dangers, as / understand
It, said Mr.. Rainey. 'are from the
charges Of the rhino In the country
where the brush is dense, as it is in
the Golbo territory. One has to be
mighty careful of these fellows, for
they are about the fercest of the wild
animals.
ssThen a wounded lion is a mighty
tough customer, and promise you I'll
be careful OF them. am very anxious
to get some moving pictures Of the
natives spearing lion. We were very
fortunate with our moving pictures In
the arctic"
Mr.. Rainey win also visit India on
HIS way home to hunt tiger.