The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-18
700 HUNTERS IN
EAST AFRICA TO
BAG Wild GAME
smithsonian Expedition to
Bring New Lion Blood
to Washington.

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WASHINGTON. D. c., June II
Members of the Smithsonian
'hrysler expedition, sent to Tan
anyika territory in East Africa by
he Smithsonian Institution to col
sct live animals for the National
biological Park in Washington
ave arrived at Dar-es-Salaam, seat
d government of Tanganyika ter.
story. At Tabora, half way be-
r.een the coast and Lake flanagan
Ika, they have establ shed their
ase camp.
A safari of $50 natives has been
rganized for the animal hunt. Each
ative, in accordance with the Brit
sf Colonial laws, is provided with
ne hat, one shirt, and one pair OF
rousers, and is paid six pence a
ay and food.
Wide Variety of Traps
Enclosing traps, which imprison
he animal without injury, and ar
esting traps, which seize the animal
githout killing it, will be used. One
f the traps consists of box near
he top Of which is platform hung
n such a way that when the animal
haps upon it to secure the bait, it is
recipitated into the bottom Of the
OK.
Pen traps will be used, also.
hese consist of long rows of fences
nto which antelopes and other
nimals are driven.
The work must be done in the fall
nd winter while the animals are
eeding their young South of the
quator, where Tanganyika is the
easons are the reverse Of those in
he north.
The trappers must exercise the
rreatest care to avoid tropical dis
asses. The expedition must guard
tgainst malaria principally and to
10 so, members of the party will
'onsume from five to ten grains of
uinine a day. Amoebic dysentery,
Uphold, the dreaded sleeping sick
less, as we'll as various sores and
llcers so common in the tropics, all
hust be vaided. In addition, in
anganyika there are a dozen rep
lies whose bife is almost certain
leath, and swarms Of insects.
To Hunt Lions
when the Smithsonian-Ch rysler
Expedition was organized, the Smith
oman Institution had the entire
dorld from which to select a place
8 trap big game and Tanganyika
territory was picked, because it is
be stamping ground Of the greatest
sriety of animals in all the world.
Lions are among the animals to
ie sought.
New lion blood is needed badly at
he National Zoo and DR.. William M.
eann, director of the zoo and head
4 the expedition, is determined to
ng back with him plenty Of new
ssck for breeding.
very time lions are hunted or
S1ped the time-old controversy
the man-eating proclivities of
king Of beasts is revived. The
African explorer and mission
David Livingstone, once said,
othing that l ever learned of the
could lead me to attribute to it
nr the ferociousness or noble
acter ascribed to it elsewhere. i"
Contrasted with Livingstone's
CIV is the statement of DIR. Arthur
+ Loveridge Of Harvard, a member
IL the Smithsonian hrysler eXnedi'
ION and for eight years game war
Ten in Tanganyika Territory, that
90 natives were killed by lions in
Fanganyika in 1928.
Roosevelt i'm Dispute
The late President Theodore
Roosevelt, after the Smithsonian ex-
edition to Africa in 1909, which he
seaded, said he regarded the lion
s the most dangerous of all African
anne. Frederick Courteney Selous,
sescribed by Roosevelt as the great
st of the worlds big game hunters,
tho killed between 800 and 400
3pns, elephants and rhinos, ranked