Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-27

Tarlton leaped off their horses, and Kermit
hit the lion with his first shot, and As It
started to charge mortally wounded it with
a second bullet. It turned and tried to reach
cover, and Tarlton stopped it with a third
shot; for there was no time to lose, as they.
wished to tackle the other lions.
After sharp gallop they rounded up the
lionesses and cubs. Kermit killed one large
cub, which they mistook for a lioness;
wounded lioness which for the time being
escaped; killed another with a single bullet
from his 3O-4O Winchester-for the others
he used his .4O5 Winchester-and hit the
third as she crouched facing him at 200
yards. She at once came in at full speed,
making most determined charge.
Kermit and Tarlton we're standing near
their horses. The lioness came on with
great bounds so that Kermit missed her
twice, but broke her shoulder high up when
she was but 80 yards off. She fell on her
head and, on rising, galloped not at the men,
but at the horses, who, curiously enough,
paid no heed to her. Tarlton stopped her
with bullet in the nick of time, just before
she reached them, and with another bullet
Kermit killed her.
Two days later they came on the remain
ing cubs and the wounded lioness, and ker-
NIT killed the latter; but let the cubs 60,
feeling it unsportsmanlke to kill them-a
feeling which l am by no means certain
share, for lions are scourges not only to
both wild and tame animals, but to man him
self
A Vast Mountain Encirckd Plain.
On September 81, (the elephant hunting
over), Kermit and Tarlton started south
west, toward Lake Harrington, and Gun
inghame and north toward the Guaso N.Y.
ero A long days march brought us down
to the hot country. That evening we
pitched our tents by rapid brook, bor-
dered by palms, whose long, stiff fronds
rustled ceaselessly in the wind. Monkeys
swung in the tree tops.
Next days march brought us to another
small tributary of the Guaso Nyero, little
stream twisting rapidly through the plain
between sheer banks. Here and there it
was edged with palms and beds of bulrusles
We pitched the tents close to half dozen
fat-topped thorn trees. We spent several
days at this camp Many kites came
around the tents, but neither vultures nor
ravens. The country was a vast plain
bounded on almost every hand by chains
OF far-off mountains. In. the southwest,
just beyond the equator, the SHOWS of Kenia
lifted toward the sky. To the north the
barren ranges were grim with the grimness
OF the desert.
Scattered over these flats were herds of
zebra, oryx and gazele. The zebra were Of
both species, the smaller or BurchellPs and
the CREWS, which the porters called kan
gan
The kangani is fine beast, much bigger
than its kinsman; it is as large as polo
pony. When it stands facing one the huge
fringed ears make it instantly recognizable.
The stripes are much narrower and more
numerous than those on the small zebra,
and in consequence cease to be distinguish
able at shorter distance; the animal then
looks gray, like wild ass
found the kangani even more wary and
more difficult to shoot than the oryx The
first one | killed was shot at a range of 400
yards; the next | wounded at that distance,
and had to ride it down, at the cost of a
hard gallop over very bad country and get