Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-31
RAINEY TO HUNT '
: IN AFRIC W|LDS
Young millionaire Drops Arctic
j 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 Ono White Man.
From Greenlands icy mountains to
lndia'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 be chartered
to take him and Harry Whitney to the
polar regions after big game was only
a little more than a 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 nimrod
in an original fashion, and since he
has taken up hunting as steady &C.
cupati0n. 30 to speak, be has come
mighty near to realizing this ambi-
ton.
Into unsxpiored Lands.
On March 3 Mr.. Rainey, accompa-
MED by Dr. M. E. Johnston, who was
with bis expedition as physician III
the arctic; "Hunter'' Black, a confrere
OF Selous and Cuninghame; e. r.
Shelly, overseer Of his Mississippi e.
tate, and moving picture man, will
leave London for Mombasa and a few
weeks later will be blazing bis own
trail through the Golbo plains country,
a practically unexplored region sew
eral hundred 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 a
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 explorative
achievement and the science of 1000
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
will be practically an original under
taking. understand buffalo Jones
tried it, but don't believe he thought
much Of the plan-anyway, don't
think he persisted in it. But believe
It will revolutionize lion hunting"
Mr.. Rainey's sofari, or caravan, will
be one Of the largest to start from
Uganda. He will 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 a particular breed
which are not affected by the sting of
the poisonous tsetse fly.
Some Of the PeriIs.
"The chief dangers, as I 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 fiercest Of the wild
animals.
'Then a wounded lion is a mighty
tough customer, and promise you I'll
be careful Of them. I 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 will also visit India on
his way home to hunt tiger.