?' V a
The Ugly
Rhinoceros
and Smaller
Game
By Capt. Fritz Duquesne
nm^v the Cenius of H. M
used up ail his men?
tal energy waking
a devil for the ani?
mal kingdom he
could not have cre?
ated a more uncer
tain, malicious un<1
ugly brute than the
rhiuoeoroa. This
animal has hurled more hunters than
all other big game combined. It
seems to be the hired assassin of the
Jungle. Its success as a homicide Is
not due to the fact that It seeks Its
victim, but because its victim falls
over It. If the rhino knows that there
Is an enemy about, it will try to get
away without being seen. If, on the
other hand. It thinks that by keeping
Btlll It will be passed unnoticed, it
stays as silcut and stotionless as
Gibraltar. Its little hog eyes watching
the direction of the noise and Its nose
sniffing the air. Should an enemy
show up suddenly in the Jungle the
rhino charges like a flash, nose down
and horns leveled like swords for the
thrust. Its huge bulk crushing through
the brush like an express treln. It Is
always a fight to the death, for a
rhinoceros once in a fight wins or
dies, and It mostly wins. If it is not
confronted with an express rifle in
the hands of a cool, good shot. It
ws3 the express In the hands of a
cool shot that saved rae In the en?
counter related here.
We had been out nearly a year and
were returning to civilization, such
as II is on the East African coast,
with a good stock of Ivory. My part?
ner. Jappie de Vllliers. a well known
Boer hunter, had fever and was ex?
pected to die at any moment. He
had been carried 300 miles from the
interior in a hammock. If dp Vllliers
had not been 111 I would not be alive
to-day.
We were pitching camp at the
Kagers river on one of these inex?
plicable barren patches that are scat?
tered like freckles over the face of
the tropical forests. The sun was
setting and the sky blazed like the
mouth of a foundry furnace. The
smoke of. the newly made ramp fires
rose slowly in the damp air and hung
lazily about the tree tops; clouds of
flies and mosquitoes followed every
living thing and the lizards looked In?
quisitively down from their perches
in the great vines that reached out
like the tentacles of a mighty octopus
holding everything in its grasp. The
river with its waxy water flowers and
gliding crocodiles was on one side of
us. the tropical Jungle, mysterious
and fascinating In all Its vivid and ex?
travagant luxury, was on the other.
I hung our rifles on the limbs of the
trees which supported my sick com?
rade's hammock. The porters were
collecting arywexxi for the night fires
Bs I watched a monster crocodile in
ttie water making a futile effort to
swallow a friend nearly as big as It?
self. A party of natives from a near?
by village was skinning a beast we
had shot for food. In another group
my "boys" were opening the bundles
of camping necessities. A loud grunt,
followed by a Somali's cry, came
from the Jungle side of the camp, and
the next instant the screeching So?
mali, followed by a hnge rhinoceros,
burst through the nndergrowtb. The
Somali ran for a tree He trlpi>ed
over an ammunition box, the rhino
passed him In its blind fury and
charged down on the clump of [ior
ters, scattering them like chaff he
fore the wind One was crushed
down. Another who had stumbled
rose to run, the maddened beast
charged and thrust its horn through
his back, battered him against a tree,
and then hurled him In the air.
Close Call for a Brave Hunter.
I was reaching for my rifle when
the rhino caught sight of me It was
too late. I turned and ran toward the
rrver. A dive won Id save me. I!
thought of the crocodiles. I felt the
ftaff of tbe rhino's foal breath. My
heart saak. I had one chance sa
Jump aside aad let the rhino pass. II
Jumped, aad the roaring animal wiped
Ita gore-stained cheek on me as I
did I doubled on my tracks, the
demoniac bnne frothing In fury after
toe As I pasaed under th* hammock
where my comrade lay between life
aad death, there was a vivid stash, a
deafening rosr tilled I he world, aad) Ij
fei] Th* rhln<*-eros r lied over,
squirting a stream of bat flood on
aae from a wound is Its aeek'l looked
sjp. dared aad breathless I dtdn t
know whether I was dead or alive I
f.lt Ose bag' tkrobbine rarraaa be
aade rae. TV? yellow feeeratsbied.
hollow-eyed face of De VtlaVrs looked
ewer ?he hammock snd asked. "Are
yoa hart*"
"I thfak not," I assTwered "What
I got no aas wer Da Vllliers sank
ear* wttk a emu I spissg to th?
ai do of the hammock I thought be
?ras d>ad His hi east was covered
ertth Wood 1 opaaad his shirt and
w has right collar hew kr?he* ggal
protruding through the flesh. I
forced some brandy dowu hiB threat
and he FSSlrsd 1 What happened?" 1
aaked aKain.
? Y?u hud one chance for life, and
that was the death of the rhino. 1
hud one chance in a thousand of sav?
ing you and killing the rhino I took
It and gave the rhino both barrels of
the express. Your face is singed a
little trass the flash. Tin- recoil of
the blunderbuss has hurt uiy shoul
der.'
He put his left hand over and felt
the shattered collar bone. "1 sup|?ose
It's all up with me," he said. "This,
on top uf the fever, is too much." He
smiled and fell hack unconscious.
The natives who had lied returned,
and we examined the five porters who
I got tbe rhinos charge. Two were
dead, three badly Injured.
Through the night I sat beside my
unconscious comrade In the flicker of
l the tamp tiros. Intoning to the dull,
monotonous droning of the insects In
the trees, and s. ?uiig fact's in the
embers, one face especially, a kind,
thin face Clowned with white hair
I weeping as I told her of Juppie. her
I hunter sou's death The chill before
dawn struck the earth. 1 turned to
put some wood on the fire, Glaring
In tbe grass a few yards away I saw
two green phosphorescent eyes. 1
' seized my Luger plsbal and rose. Like
a flash u lion sprang away before I
could shoot. A little later the forest
bin st into thunderous roars. It seemed
? to be full of lions, which were attract
ed by the smell of the rhino's blood.
I De Villlers did not die. He came
through It all. He now organizes
hunting expeditions Into Kast Africa
and iu all probability be will be one
of the Koosevt It party
Treed by a Rhino Birthday Party.
The next day we continued our
inarch. We had not gone far when
a native brought i:i news of a fresh
persuaded some ofthe natives to go In
with a rope and uttacb it so that we
could draw the hippo over No amount
of persuasion would It.duee them to
even put their feet In tbe river. At
last, exasperated. I seized the end of
the rope and jumped into the river,
boots and all. and struck out for the
hippo. 1 had gone about a hundred
strokes when a cry from the bunk
caused me to look arouud A cold
shiver of horror rsn through mo. for J
20 yards behind, gliding silently
toward ins through the blue water. I
could distinguish the biowu form of a
crocodile.
Shott!" I cried. "Shoot!" as I put
every bit of enetgy into my stroke.
The crocodile must have b?en near
me, for the bullets that were being
hied from the bank commenced to
zip. zip. around my bead. 1 was sfrald
to look back, expec ting every moment
to be seized and dragged io the bot- I
torn.
At last I reached the dead hippo 1
and managed to drag myself out of i
the water up on the slippery carcass. I
The exertion made my head swim. In J
a few minutes I was myself again. I
apologized in silence to the black gen- '
tleinen on the river batik for doubting
tlielr courage. I had none left. 1 took
my knife and cut a foothold M the
carcass, and then rocked it so that .
it would drift to the shore. The na
tlves lold me that a well directed bul- |
let had hit the crocodile in the head.
The Enormous Cost of Hunting.:
The cost of hunting big game In
Africa Is enormous. One must spend i
a fortune before firing the first shot. |
The various Kuropeun colonies "pro- i
tect" their game by charging II |
pounds sterling ($200) a year for a 11
eaaas which allows the hunter to kill
two each ol the paehyi.e rniata and
from two to tert of the various specie s
of antelojies. This does not protect
tbe game, but It fills the local treas
rlcs. The Asiatic elephant hi al.o
different In ?ppcuiauce from Its At
rlcau relati.e
Now about User*, which have been
treated so frsslj as African game In
recent Ann i b au articles. It all do?
pend? o:i aoe's nationality whether oi
not there are tigers In Africa. The
leopard Is Called a tljger (tlgerl by
the Hocra. and so Is the < beetah. Just
as a panthet u aal lad a tiaar lu saaaa
parts of the I nitod States. The
striped animal which Is zoologically
known as a tiger itlgrl* renalisi a id
which Is the animal ratafias] to In a
number of ISOesI stores. BSSS not
make Its hubltat In Africa as the
writers set in to think. So when a
traveler speaks of lions. |aof MdB und
tigers seizing passenger* from truins
he i? geiiei.,||\ writing ai lo:ig mn-e
with a misinformed imagli atlon in?
stead of facta. He makes a double
mistuke It he speaks of 'tigers an.)
leopaids" in referring to Africau fiuina.
us In Africa tbe\ iiie.cn I be same ani?
mal. I have neVer bears' an Kirzli-di
man or a Boat when t.peak'.ns BasMsh
cull a leopard a tiger.
The most dangeioiis hiiutiti); occurs
when one- Kttempt? to capture hi-- aal
mal alive Many iculi.ial?. harmless
and tluiid under ordinary elicum
stance's, become demon* SrhSS cap
tared. Ths mihi, st looking aatebaps
will put up a tierce fight when once
over Ha first fright; the ostrich will
kick a man ta pieces, i.lining Us blows
with lightning like rapidity 1 do no!
know one Afrlcun animal that can be
called cowardly.
One has only to look at the form Id
able horn* of all the African antelope
to BSS that they arc built to fight with,
strong as lion and as sharp as a HUMS
I h.-tx e se. it mi antelope attsi a
leopard, and even a lion, when its
young Is threatened. The gemsbok.
or oryx, with Its two r.word like horns,
has dispatched many a lion. It Is not
uncommon to find a gemsbst, and ? ?
lion dead bealds each other, the mute j
THE YELLOW
VILLIERS LOOKED OVER
HAMMOCK.
urics. Added to this is the price for j
i>orters. shikarees, headmen, etc.. who
have to accompany the hunter. The 1
average expedition Is made up of from
30 to 35 natives for esch white '
FEVER-STAINED
rhino spoor, f at once set out in
search of the game. We were not
ten minutes on the hunt when I
i sraeliccLthe peculiar odor of the rhino.
I which antuetinit k is very strong. I
I was down the wind?that is. the wind | man. The cost of equipping and
Iwas blowing toward me from the maintaining an ex|iedit!r.n is from
rhino?so I was sure of getting a ] $400 to $600 a month for each white
j pretty good shot. A few minutes j hunter according to the district
I later I saw a long horn sticking i hunted In. One well-known concern
I through the high grass. It was mo-j with headquarters at Nairobi, that
1 tlonless. The animal was waiting; makes a business of hunting and ex
I for us to pass. I took a chance aim J pod it ion managing, equips and main
and fired, hoping to hit a vital spot! tains an expedition on the field for
)K calculation was bad and the rhino ; $?",00 a month, supplying everything
I tampered off at a gallop. I stood j excepting arms and liquor.
[ ttere cursing my luck when a grunt
behind nie nearly scared me out of
my wits. I took no chances, but I Of course whea Mr. Roosevelt' the country. It was In the rainy sea
turned and ran. I hadn't gone 20 j hunts, his expedition will hunt for, son. and the veld, which under ordl
yards when I bumped on something | everything his licenses will allow him ' nary circumstances afforded excellent
in the grass and down 1 went. 11 to shoot. It wilj be amateur s(*>rt, 1 traveling, became a swamp
No Tigers in Africa.
evidence of a terrific encounter. The
mo?t dangerous animal of all to caj>
tnre Is 'he gorilla, as much on ac?
count of the country R Inhabits as on
account ,or Its enormous strength, as
the following incident will Illustrate:
A Blood Curdling Gorilla Hunt.
I was commissioned by a German
naturalist society to capture one of
esch species of Afriran cjuadrumana.
A German professor accompanied me
or, my expedition, which set forth in
a direct lite? wqpt from Dar es Salaam
We succeeded fn getting some of ...letl
speeles. with the exception of tri,, go?
rilla. Per weeks we wandnrr-d about
grabbed my rifle and made for the 1 not conducted from a financial point
nearest tree a few yards away. When j of view; there his equipment will
I could cet my breath 1 surveyed the , probably be more costiy than a profes
scene from my point of vsr.tage. I I slonal one. but no better than the av
could see at least ten rhinos. The erage snorts-man uses In Africa. For
thing I Ml over was a new horn baby
rhino and It must have been its
mother I shot at.
It Is the habit of the pachvd* rmata
i of Africa to collect around a female
I that Is shout to give birth to yonng.
? This Is to protect the new born weak- - ration of alum
i Mng against tbe attscks of Its ene- j from beetles. It
With our
long line of native lorterx we literally
wadi-d our way over the country for
weeks, the black, oaay slush soaking
Into our hones and the clay undt r'
foot gripping like glue
Such wss the predicament we ?,-re
instanoa, he will carry a taxidermist's
outflt aad cure and preserve big game ' in: the spirit of revolt and de*.-rtlo-i
Immediately after it Is shot. | had seized the caravan. I railed the
As soon as a lion or leopard is killed ? men ioge'her snd fold th?m we were
the ?hin must he removed, cleaned, j going into the Consn forests where
and treated with a taxtderraie prepa- | there was no doubt abonr capturing s
Then to protect It "
must l>c soaked In
j mlcs. and that is the sort of rhrisT. n
I lug I ran Into I hated to Interrupt
th. hi-th-:-. ; -?' ? 1 ?? T e, tit.jt.'t '..?<
sentiment Interfere with business, so
i I opened fire on the near-it rhino H"
I got R right throngh the heart and
1 fell I fired at a second and that
I also went down. While I was reload
lag niy express the reat took fright
J and scamperrd off
Narrow Escape from Crocodiles.
The summer before- last I wss hunt?
ing on tbe Kagera We bad eaten
time and 'be camp
for a change, so 1 ?bot a
it was an easv thing
to do. I walled tin It showed Its held,
snd. hang' A ?pur? of blood aad It
was all over As 'he writer was deep.
I knew Out Is ?**
to snd my victim
reak I was down at
arty of astfve* As
ion's body wss float
lag. tot nnlurWIy for us. on 'he op
f*~:u .(4, of >.tr rrssi aus | ??.
attb crocodiles I tried to
morning I ouaht
floating At dsyb
the Hver with s r
I
turpentine snd put In , harre of a na?
tive runner, who takes it to the near?
est post for pre serration Often when
a skin arrive* at Its destination the
numerous Insects that Infest 'he coun
try have eaten it fuil of holes and It is
absolute!)- worthless.
Speaking of Carnivora sad tbe other
fsuns of Africa let me say for the
benefit of the American, writers lec?
turers and artists who wlah to pre
t. ad to a knowledge of African ani?
mal ItfS that there are no yaks, alii
gators, kancaroors. turkeys, bears or
tigers In Africa outride of a eirrn* or
a zoological gard?n There are two
species of rhinoceros, the bicomls or
preh. nalle lipped, and the almna or
The Utter, a]
black as Its rsB>
tlve. la called the white rhinoceros on
sccewint of a blue slaty tinge la Its
skia To be exact there It so such
thins as s white rhlnewteroa. Doth
have two borr.a The Asiatic rhl |
BOrefos ha. hut one. ProridUea snd
n'-irvr- b) SDSSSr
aacc. aad the latter do sot live la Af
gorilla A smile of satisfaction swept
asms the natives' face?, and st sunrise
we sterted for a three months' tramp
to th- west of the Tanganvika
Arriving at a IVIgUn army post, a
pigmy prisoner told us where we
could find a gorilla, and an hour's
trsv. I frjtn tbs aas* brought ss fs ths
lire,, wf.c-re tbe animal made Its
1, Li..- It was a' Id..-aji retreat, rank
with rot tier ?rs?"Ui?*a, tbe srcumnlc
Hons of r--atari, a. reaching up to our
kaers. Masses glided, htswlnr. out of
the way and llr r's. green, brae aad
every color of the ?|ertman bolted la
fear to tbe tree tops snd bltaXtd St
us^ with their tftrle glistrittng eye?
Monkeys looked In wonder andyhe*
?ramp-red In thousand* Tt-ousfT th<
forest, screeching lllc will Scads asd
*wing1ag frasa tree to tree for ssrh
dlstsnrr-s (feat they as ISMS* to Sy.
How a Jjcrjle Looks.
Reauilfaliy <!o*<sm*d f.-rr* fc-rrw wn
der font snd crej^ < ar.-.?:s=iT ?n the
great tree trunk* r.awsas sff fan
taatle haasty wsYrd 'hare, srd al
m?i*t msn'acal exrircr ak?n gr * ?rj.
aad kassj dasra truss ths lasisth.
t ?x
black, arurtke-llke vines, exhaling from
their he.iitg a hundred Intoxicating
odors which mixed with the sickening
efflueta of decay.
Insects resembling flowers and
leaves crawled over everything, twigs
apparently walking up the trees and
leaves apparently splitting and flying
In all directions beetles with btg.
hypnotic eyes and bronio backs
buzxed noisily arouud our heads, and
beautiful blrda vytug with one an?
other in brilliance of plumage sailed
through the air. filling the dismal for?
est ?Ith their passion-laden songs
The constantly dilpptug sap spatterej
from leaf to leaf, soaking luto the
noxious earth. It was a scene, dread |
and fascinating, clamoring of life In
\ iilug one to dcsth.
for fetir days we camped In this
hotbed of disease Heaters went out |
in all directions searching for the go
rllla. At last some deep, wide scratch
es were found on s cluster of vines
On close examination the unuiistak
aide hulr of the gorilla was foiaid on i
h broken twig After some hours we]
found the tree where the gorilla lived
We could tell It by the greasy Hppcm
ance of the hark, made so by the re?
peated rubbing of the gorillas body
We could tell by the fresh marks, with j
knp still wet. that the animal had re
cently ascended the tree The scratch
es were short and deep, showing that
It had lifted Itself up and not slid j
down, which would have made a loug,
shallow scratch.
We spread a strong net around the j
tree In u circle sloping upward on the
outer side. Around the top of the net I
there were drawn ropes from four dl-1
l ections held by half a dozen natives |
hidden In the bush. These were to
tiring the top of the net together and j
thus bag our game.
After waiting some hours the leaves J
above rustled and then opened, aa aj
six-foot male gorilla descended un?
suspectingly and entered the trap. I
signaled, the four ropes were pulled
st once, and we had our anlmai for
a moment. He roared In fury, twist
lug. Jumping, and biting the ropes Into |
pieces The natives were pulled about
like dolls us lie tried to rr ach first one
and then another. The professor j
jumped about |u excitement, Irving to]
focus a camera on the Infuriated anl
mal.
At last the mighty arm? of the go
rllla broke a hole through the net and
he tore the reat from hlni ns though
It were a rotten rug. Most of the us
tlves fled In dismay. The professor
dropped his camera and tried to es?
cape; In a moment the gorilla grasped
him !ti Its terrible hands.
I seized my rifle and flred In the
air to frighten the animal. In my po?
sition I could not shoot at him without
hitting my friend. For a moment the
gorilla stood still, holding the now uo>
conscious man as though ho were n
baby, the brute's Hps drawn back from
his glistening teeth. I thrtiBt another
cartridge In my rifle. As I dtd so
there was a buzx In the air. and an
arrow, shot by a native, pierced the
gorilla's side. A roar burst from his
red throat and he dropped his victim.
I.Ike a flash, before I could shoot, a
native sprang from the leaves and,'
half throwing, half thrusting, drove
an assagai Into the gorilla's heart.
With a groan the brute fell dead.
Examining the profeaaor, I found
that his right arm was broken and
that some of his ribs were crushed
Into his lungs. We gave up the effort
to get a live gorilla and. placing the
injured man in a hammock, carried
him hack toward the East roast. He
died on the road. Out on the veld be?
side a native village a lonely little
slab marked "Carl Hloch" sticks u|.
shove the grass. It is the professor's
grave. Hunting Is not all exciting ad
venture and laughing slctory. It has Its
tears, like other things.
(Copyright. IMS. by H.-nJ. B. Hampton.
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Wedding Rings on the Isles of Aran
Are Scarce and Consequently
Are Used in Common.
The Isles of Aran are among the
least known and most Interesting cor?
ners of Ireland. The people, mostly
fisher folk, are poor and Ignorant, yet
they speak the ancient tongue of their
land with such purity and perfection
that acholars from the great universi?
ties go to learn of them. An Illiterate
lad of 14 was rerently the quite com
potent Instructor In Oa*Hc of a distin?
guished German professor.
A recent sojourner In one of "the
Isles discovered that there were, upon
it but throe wedding tings: but
prospective bridegroom waa> ever dis?
couraged because he eouU. not boy a
ring He need simply go to th* near
est of the three happy matrons who
were ring wearers and borrow here
Negotiations for a marriage are
made with a girl's father and a dowry
la expected. Gwsiaesslike aa this
sounds. Aran lovers can be Impetnoits
Late one evening it occurred to a cer
tala young man that he would tike to
nsarry a certain colleen, and to do so
the nest day
The matter waeYfcrrangcd and early
the nevt morrln^He prt-st was seat
for. bat there hae^eea a storm I
the sea was rough Ho was delayed
hot the festivities were bot lato the
midst of the coavivial crowd catsae a
messen??.- announcing that his rever?
ence* boat waa In sight: they d*cide*|
to waif Ii I be landed Word came that
to eNmh the seta He did so. bat still
they lingered, aad only an Imperativ*
message that he waa art natty watttsg
ta the chapel hrok- up the aateaiptlel
the groove raced
a few yards hehlod. the relatives ran
after In a goaa-yoa please sexxcsaafhxa.
aad sll were soundly rated fear their
tsrdlnca? before tee ianted prhast
would proceed to solemnise the aa
Hag* with the keeraw?4 riag.?Toeth'e
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