The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1912-07-19

DO sJid ne IA jr-e roturien ir'm the Congo
where he mad zen shooting elephants for some
mctibs nj tho rex Of Muhagi and that no had
been worry ,u,c, Mul up to certain point but
tb.p had los, an ais hard.gotten ivory and all his
ed,rts ,yrt,r, ~ n attack from the natives. His
sultoouop, n,rr, Ne was an cnthrallng one. and
wish tho, 4, =. ~ possible for me to reproduce
IL cynct "a b I'D II to mo on that still African
night
81 got nm %, well with the natives and had
rot son,o y,r, fine tusks." no continued "One
day I was ~, after some elephants. which had
been Ioc,toi by the natives for me. and came
across for, Iuge tuskors. fired nj the biggest.
but only a cecdcd In morally wounding n. Ho
cbarro, through the tall elephant grass toward
~. With his huge ears outsproad and his trunk
raised high above his head. lie screamed fear.
fully with rag" and pain and the sight was In,
deed terrifying one fired at polntbank range
and again hit him MORALLY, The elephant contin.
ucd his charge and one NJ my native servants
failed 10 yet out Of his way. The elephant pushed
the native to one side with his tusk In passing
and the boy fell to tho ground without a sound
The elephant fell down dead short distance
away
THE three remaining elephants were wild. with
rage and rushed hithcr and thithcr tearing down
the trees In all directions as II they bad been
made Of paper, screaming shrllly all the time n
was m anxious moment for me, for I was within
NIFTY feet Of them NJ the time NJ my first shot
At last they made on across country tOwnrd the
lak" aud followed them mp ana succeeded in
hagglng all three ~ them In three shots al clofe
range
II returned to look for my native servant
thinking that he would be watching over my first
tuskor To my aston @'mcut found tho boy
lying dcnd whore ne had fallen when the elephant
bowled him over examined him carefully and
found that no homes had been fractured nor was
there mark on his body IIc must have died
from shock ut tho terrifying experience
ION or about n"ccmbcr 10th moved on farther
N.H.v.
main camp two days behind me. within a radius
OF twenty miles Of me there were four other white
ponchors namely, Pearson Dickinson BoyCs and
Knowles, The natives appeared perfectly friendly
10 me on my first night In camp they visited
me, dancing and singing round my campfire
suspected no trcachcry from them: on the con.
trary they appeared willing TO keen me informed
Of the movements Of the elephants aud Of the
liclginn military patrol, which was operating I'm
the district ondeayorlng 10 capture MS poachors
Next day the same thing happened ana I was
asked 10 attend to the leg of one Of the trlbeEmen
who had been injured badly In a native brnwl.
] bathed the wound and was winding a bandace
round the wounded leg when ! suddenly felt my
wrists seized rope was quickly cast round my
neck other ropes were fastened round my legs
and arms, and was ierkod roughly on the camp.
stool on which | was sitting Then the natives
seized my guns and all my camp equipment was
deliberately destroyed before my eyes. native
seized my helmet and insolontly paradnd before
m" with II on hls own head. ! was then benton
savagoy across the back Of the hands and on ta,
body with sticks My hands burst open hurting
ioarfully and the sun beat down upon my head
with terrific force
81 was made 10 march, with my captors Ieorlnr
~ me and sublecting me TO awful lndlgnities. for
four whole days through the bronng sun until
their powerful chiefs village was REACHED Here
the chief came forward and shook me by my
wounded and manacled hands, bidding his follow.
orS release He 0uplOOlIuu old
with very Intelligent face, standing over six
feet high