The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-01
Tati or F'rancistown, situated on the hnrdar of Rech1laland and RhodeSia.

Tati or F'rancistown, situated on the ; border of Bechua1and and Rhodesia,
 Well, we stayed a couple of days at the Tati Hotel, the only one in the town, perfecting our arrangements. Our party consisted of span of oxen (16) and wagon, and six natives 1n- t1uding the leader l(foorlooper) for the oxen, guns and plenty of ammu- milton, and also timed provisions sacks of flour and meal, enough to last us for three months. It was our intention to make our way towards the Transvaal. and keep along the Limpopo, or the Crocodile rivers, where we knew there were plenty of the smaller specie of monkeys or bajb Failing these places we could easily branch away towards the Kalahari Desert, on the German Southwest side where we could get larger species.
 We remained on the banks of the Crocodile for about Il month and shot quite a large number of these ami mals, when we decided to break camp and get down to the Langeberg Mountains. We were about five weeks getting to the desired place. We managed to kill 8 lot of the monkey tribe, called the Crang outang. In the meantime we had heard from wandering tribe of na- Hves that they had passed a large troop of ostrfches a little distance from the German border, not far | from place called Tesse. Upon hear l ing this my partner and myself had | a quiet talk and we made up our minds to go hunting these wild birds
 and sell their feathers as at that time they were bringing good prices. 1 "Of course the condition of the 1 feathers had a lot to do with value. l have forgotten to mention that we
 had also brought along two horses l We came across the spoor of ostriches
 and in the course of a week we had about 200 pounds weight of feathers
 and they were a very nice parcel in | deed Whilst we were in that part | of the country we were taking big l risks, as we had to be on the watch i that the police of the German and | Cape Colony sides did not catch us
 in the act of killing the birds, as it
 was illegal on both sides to do so.
 "It was the last day of our stay and
 we had sighted a large troop of os-
 triches. We immediately separated l
 to the right, going full speed with
 as we rode along. We had dropped
 about seven or eight, when noticed
 a peculiar gait or action of one of
 the birds. It seemed to run with a
 wobbly movement of its long neck. ]
 may state for the benefit of the un- l itiated that when these birds are or
 the run they invariably hold up thei1
 long necl1s almost stiff with just 3
 slight curve which at times is very
 graceful Upon riding closer to this bird I was startled to see a pair o1 human legs, but very slender. I i'm.
 mediately came to the conclusion tha1 a human being was inside that os trich dress. I set my horse for the object and practically rode it down
 Upon dismounting, I was amazed tC see crawling out from underneath tht horse, feathers and all, a small dwar sized boy or man, copper color ant looking very wild. I was just goins ] to help him rise from the ground ant stopped over for this purpose whe1 2 something went whistling by m, head. The little devil had taken ] snap shot with his bow and arrov I as he emerged from underneath.
 There was no doubt that my actiol , l to help him by my stopping had evi
 dently saved my life or being serious = ly wounded. I found out later tha ' the tip of the arrow was steeped in
 deadly poison, known only to the trib
 to which this little savage belonged
 Seeing what kind of being I was U ;. U against I lost no time in securin o him from attempting to do any nor mischief.
 '+In the meantime my partner ha
 rode up to where we were, and seein d that I had a human being trussed u - and bound to the saddle, he said t ,,t me jokingly, Cap what kind of a = animal have you got on your sad = dle?' I replied in the same strain, II don't know, but from his actions h u must belong to the Devil specie, as h 'e behaved like one just a little whi = ago.
 II q then told him of the run dow ,d and capture and subsequent behavic |: of the savage and of his attempt o me. Upon hearing this it made m le partner wild and walking to m l. horse he shook his fist in the lit lg mans face and said some thing $ which, of course, were not under g. stood.
 d .'Ea our sunrise the little ma