The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-16

der present conditions at $5O0O apiece. The anthropoid apes, roan sable and kudu antelope, along with the rarer species of gazelle, are also in great demand. In fact, the world trade in wild animals is expected to run to $l0O000o0 a year, of which $1 ,250, 900 is expected to be profit. The first 10 orders which Jordan has re- ceived total $500, 900, and it is said that already s2,00O,000 of orders are in sight
 Incidentally it is hoped to attract at
 tention to Britains new possessions in Africa. The great zoo which today is British East Africa will be the scene of
 Jodrans main effort in organizing pig game shooting parties There is no closed season on game there, and the dry season which is now on extends to about the end of April when the rains set in. Most of the hunting is in the highlands, about 5000 feet above sea level
 the sable antelope being practically the only animal attractive to hunters to be found exclusively along the coast. Here Capt. Godfrey Catchpole is to be placed in charge of the local organization, and shooting parties are to be handled just as party of Cooks tourists are handled
 They will be embarked from England by the Union Castle line for Mombasa, entraining there for Nalropl, 24 hours by raii into the interior. From dawn until
 aoon, as the journey draws to it's close,
 he train runs through one vast zoo
 Yildbeeste hartebeeste, gazelle, zebra.
 ostrich, giraffe and occasionally a vhin
 ceros or lion are seen from the train
 Tindows.
 From Nairobi. the parties start out with
 their hunting kit and porters, into the northern Uaso -Nyero, or down the Tana river, into the southern Uaso Nyero and into other regions. Once in the field, they start the day at a. m. with commee and biscuits, setting out thereafter with their gunbearers, porters and ponies in order to visit the kill left out overnight as bait for lion or other wild beasts. Thej usually keep up the hunt until g o'clock, when they return to camp for breakfast, after which the hunt is re- stunned untii dusk, with a lunchean basket
 for light meal about 30
 NO SPORT FOR "PIKERS" The sport is not one for men without means, for the estimated expense of the
 average shooting party per month is $2500. Beside white hunters who have to be added to the party, blacks are taken along to act as porters, gunbearers, syces, headmen, as1aris (guards), cooks, personal servants and kitchen boys Ponies and mules, costing from $75 to $225 apiece, have to be bought and the rifles and ammunition are not inexpen~ sive, These consist usually of a large bore double-barreled rifle of about .450 calbre for rhinoceros and hippopotamus, double -barreled 360 for lion. small bore magazine rifle about .31S, a double-bar- reled 12-bore shotgun. a revolver, a .22 rifle for small animals and birds. with about 5000 rounds of ammunition, includ- l ing soft-nosed and solid cartridges, The mount of personal kit mhich, has to | be taken along is not inconsiderable either and a sportsmans license good for a year adds $250 to the total prn. | And still certain extra charges must be added. It is permissible to shoot two elephant the charge for the first being | $50 extra and for the second 500. Gi- 1 raffe cost $50 extra and it is permis-
 slble to shoot only one. Except for ami mals which are classed as vermin, a license is required for all shooting and
 a specified number of each animal is per mitted to be killed by aur exposition.
 ranging from one giraffe, one rhinoceros, one greater kudu. one sable antelope and one roan antelope, to 20 Coke's harte- beeste and 20 Burchelrs zebra.
 1 There is, however, a long list of animals 1 cassed by law as vermin for the shoot | ing of which no license is required Lion are classed as vernin when found within 1 five miles of any European settlement
 (elsewhere the number of lion permitted to be killed under one license is limited to | four). Ieopards, wart hogs. bush pigs, | lynx, wild dogs, hyena, crocodile. Python, l baboon, jackals, small cats of various species, certain monkeys mongoose ant 1 bear, otter adger, etc, are all legal vermin and may be shot at any time without a license.
 BIG CAPTURES EXPECTED
 ] Already two expeditions have started from Europe. The first was headed by the Comte de Monceau the famous French writer, explorer and zoologist. It ileft Liverpool early in August for Duala ir the Cameroons formerly .German), whence a trek was to be started across the Cameroons to the French Ubangi on the Congo. Thence the expedition was to return down the Congo to Matadi to en,- bark. after a six months trip for Eng lanr.
 In the party are Sir Hyiton Ralph Frisco, Lady Frisco and Cyril Pim, late of the Life Guards. Sir Hylton is a isportsman of long standing reputation and the owner of an estate of some 400( acres in England. Lady Frisco is enter ing country which no white woman has ever seen.
 This party has been sent after the lbongo, the most brilliantly-colored of all iantelopes, and a creature which has rrver been captured. Incidentally il hopes to capture a gorilla, pythons and cobras Already cable has been re- ceived which indicates that it has cap