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


long distance round the ground was worn
completely bare by the hoofs Of the count
less herds Of thirsty game that had travelled
thither from time immemorial Sleek,
handsome, long horned oryx, with switch
ing tails, were lettering in the vicinity, and
at the water hole itself we surprised band
OF gazelles not 50 yards off they fled panic
struck in every direction. Men and horses
drank their fill, and we returned to the sunny
plains and the endless reaches Of withered,
rustling grass.
At last, an hour or two before sunset,
when the heat had begun little to abate,
we spied half a dozen giraffes scattered a
mile and half ahead Of US, feeding on the
tops of the few widely separated thorn
trees Cuninghame and started toward
them on foot but they saw us when we were
mile away, and after gazing short while,
turned and went off at their usual rocking
horse canter, twisting and screwing their
tails.
We mounted and rode after them. was
on my zebra-shaped brown horse which was
hardy and with fair turn of speed, and
which by this time had trained to be good
hunting horse On the right there were two
giraffe which eventually turned out to be
a big COW followed by nearly full grown
young one but Cuninghame, scanning them
through his glasses, and misled by the dark
coloration, pronounced them bull and a
cow, and after the big one went.
By good luck we were on one of the rare
pieces of the country which was fitted for
galoping l rode at an angle to the giraffe s
line of flight, thus gaining considerably; and
when it finally turned and went straight
away | followed at a fast rum and before it
was fully awake to the danger was but a
hundred yards behind. We were now get
ting into bad country, and Jumping off
opened fire and crippled the great beast.
Mounting, I overlook it again in quarter
of mile and killed it,
A Plain Crawling With Zebra.
One afternoon while leading my horse s :
edged stones, | came out on plain which
was crawling with zebra In every dircc-
ton there were herds of scores or of hun
dreds. They were all of the common CT
small kind, except three individuals of f..
big kangani, and were tame, letting me walk
by within easy shot. Other game was mixed
in with them.
Soon, walking over a little ridge of rocks.
we saw rhino 90 yards off, To walk COR
ward would give it our wind; did not wish
to kill it; and was beginning to feel about
rhino the way Alice did in the Looking
Glass country, when the elephants ",'lG
bother So"
Having spied us the beast at once cool, ID
its ears and tail and assumed its usual alb
surd resemblance to huge and exceedingly
alert and interested pig But with a rhine
tragedy sometimes treads on the heels of
comedy, and | watched it sharply, my lille
cooked, while | had all the men shou. in
unison to scare it away. The noise puzzled
it much; with tail erect and head tos7 Y
and twisting, it made little rushes hi,hcr
and thither, but finally drew off
Next day, in shifting camp, Cuningha,ne
and | were twice obliged to dismount and
keep guard over the safari while it marched
by within hundred yards of highly u
zled rhino, which trotted to and fro in The
bush evidently uncertain whether or not to
let its bewderment turn into Indignation
The camp to which we thus shifted was