Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-17
shell Of earth.

shell of earth.
We also saw long column Of the dreaded
driver ants. These are carnivorous; have
seen both red and black species; they kill
every living thing in their path. and | have
known them at night drive all the men in
camp out into the jungle to fight the mos.
quitoes unprotected until daylight.
On another occasion, where steamboat
was moored close to bank, an ant column
entered the boat after. nightfall and kept
complete possession of it for 48 hours. Fires
and boiling water offer the only effectual
means of resistance.
The bees are at times as formidable; when
their nests are disturbed they will attack
every one in sight, driving all the crew OF a
boat overheard or scattering safari, and
not infrequently killing men and beasts of
burden that are unable to reach some place
of safety.
The last afternoon, when the flotilla had
called to take us farther on our journey, we
shot about dozen buck, to give the porters
and sailors feast, which they had amply
earned All the meat did not get into camp
until after dark-one of the sailors, urfortu-
nately, falling out of tree and breaking his
neck on the way in-and it was picturesque
to see the rows of big antelope-hartebeest,
kob, MISUNDERSTANDING in front of the
flaring fires, and the dark faces of the wait
ing negroes each deputed by some partcu-
lar group OF gun-bearers, porters or sailors
to bring back its share.
Sickness and Death Attacks the Expedition.
Next morning we embarked, and steamed
and drfted down the Nile; ourselves, our
men, Our belongings, and the spoils Of the
chase all huddled together under the torrid
sun. Two or three times we grounded on
sand bars; but no damage was done, and in
20 hours we reached Minute.
We were no longer in healthy East Africa.
Kermit and I had been in robust health
throughout the time we were in Uganda
and the Lado but all the other white men
of the party had suffered more or less from
dysentery, fever and sun prostration while
in the Lado; some of the gun-bearers had
been down with fever, one of them dying
while we were in Uganda and four of the
porters who had marched from Koba to
Minute had died of dysentery-they were
burying one when we arrived.
At Minute we were as usual greeted with
hospitable heartness by the English Off
Gals, as we'll as by two or three elephant
hunters. One of the latter three days before
had been charged by an unwounded bull
elephant He fired both barrels into it as it
came on, but it charged home, knocked him
down, killed his gun-bearer, and made its
escape in the forest.
A Grewsome Proof of Death
In the forlorn little graveyard at the sta
ton were the graves of two white men who
had been killed by elephants. One OF them,
named Stoney, had been caught by wound
ed bull, which stamped the life out of him
and then literally dismembered him, tearing
his arms from his body.
In the African wilderness, when a man
dies, his companion usually brings in some
thing to show that he is dead, or some rem
nant of whatever it is that has destroyed
him; the sailors whose companion was
killed by falling out of the tree near Lado
camp, for instance, brought in the dead
branch which had broken under his weight
and Stoneys gun-bearer marched back tc
Minute carrying an arm Of his dead master
and deposited his grewsome burden in the
office of the district commissioner.