Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-05
PRINCE WRITES
SOUL INTOBO0K
German Noble Says He Real
ICES His LittIeneSS in Face
of Nature.

MERLIN. July 5-The book Of tht
crown prince. Leaves from My Huntini
Diary giving his own account of hi
sporting experiences III Europe and India
during 1910 and 1911. has just been pub
lished The book is handsomely produced
with the princes initial and coronet en-
blazoned in gold, and is illustrated b,
photogra phs mostly taken by the prince
or the princess.
In the preface the prince says.
In offering these pages to the public
feel q certain embarrassment and I wan1
TO save my readers from false Illusions
These little sketches are simple and plair
and lay claim 10 no literary value. They
are loose leaves taken from the diary OF
q man who loves real hunting, and II
whom great and beautiful nature is ar
irexhaustible source of loveliness and the
Joy of life
In describing his stay in q country
house in Scotland. the prince says.
Praises English Country Houses.
These English country houses are, e
my mind, the most elegant and at the
same time the most comfortable mag
inable Every guest in such house IS
looked after in a delightful way. and this
is done in such a charming manner that
q guest is never conscious that his host
is troubling himself about him. In the
art Of entertaining the English are a
genial ideal With us. people think y nee
essary TO be always talking TO guest
He is worried to death with engagements
pleasures and sightseeing There Is moth
ing OF that in England Meals are at GER
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together, II there Is nothing special 10 do,
such as a hunt, then everybody is his own
master.
The prince shows a racy style IN mar
rating his first experience in elephant
hunting In Ceylon
we had splashins about perspiringly
Aor some three quarters of an hour with
out seeing anything when we suddenly
heard a very strange noise. II sounded
like the dnl growth OF distant thunder
as We approached nearer Our leader ex-
plalned in a whisper that it was the
snoring OF an elephant which was taking
its midday nap quite close TO US. He was
right After we had crept forward about
another 200 meters this creeping was,
moreover, no trine. IN view OF the nature
OF this close reis ton Of e pontine marsh
off the slippery ground Of which we shth
cred about miserablyl we saw the colos-
sus lying on his side, gray, massive, with
the head pointed toward US and fast
asleep
cenfesses Nervousness.
TT had been impressed upon me where
I should place my bullet either from the
side on a triangle between the eye and
the ear or from in front Immediately
above the root Of the trunk. I knelt down
in the swamp and steadied myself against
small willow, or something similar
aimed at the SPOT above the trunk and
confess that I placed my finger very nor
vousiy on the trigger
What happened then is indescriba BILE,
the crack OF the shot mingled with a kind
OF earth and sea quake, and terrible
trumpeting from the so rudely awakened
old gentleman.
He had rolled himself onto hts feet
! could see the place where my shot had
hit him Although TOO high, the shot
must have been through the oblique po-
sition Of the head and IT failed to strike
a vital part.
There the fellow stood puzzled and
raging only a moment. but just long
enough for F1nckenstein and one Of the
Englishmen. each to get in a bullet, then
the wounded giant tured and crashe
away from us There we stood with silly
faces The Englishmen said. damn and
we said, 'Verhucht. which is pretty much
the same thing.
Elephant Gets Away
TT was at once clear TO me that we
must follow One of the Englishmen
however. declared straight out that he
could not agree 70 my going another step
further, for a wounded elephant was nc
joke
we replied calmly that he could re-
main behind, which he decided to do. SC
we all set off on the track of the wounded
animal-thi pursuit l shall never forget
in all my life
THE underground was enormously thick
and entirely blocked the view At any
moment we might be confronted by the
wounded elephant At twenty PAGES dis.
tant, II he attacked us we were lost as tc
that. there was no doubt the ground was
slippery and covered with thorns so that
we could not deviate two steps from tn,
elephants track There were no lsrg,
trees
Destruction threatened US behind the
wall Of brushv ood and as a matter O
fact we were almost taken by surprise
one of the English gentlemen brushes tn,
curtain OF creepers aside and then l sc,
that he suddenly makes spasmodic signs
TO me. spring forward and gesticulatt
quickly to Finckensteln IN front Of us
Twenty PAGES away stands the gray gian
ready for attack. the mighty ears extend
ed, and trunk rolled up
we opened q quick fire The bullet.
sailed in on him, then he turned anc
went of az Jog trot
Il was IN despair All the trouble. tht
excitement and the danger had been y
vain We set of again in pursuit. anc
for two hours more, painfully and eve
more painfully, fought our way through
thicket and swamp tin At last ou
strength failed Struggling for air. eacl
one sat down exactly where he was tina
Is 70 say, in the water The elenhan
had more than ? dozen bullets IN him ant
yet We never saw anything more OF him
Safety of nTincinal and A NO,