THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 21, 1900.
COST OF BIG CAME SHOOTING
Effectitt Work in African Wildi Ke
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Captain FtHs Duquenne', a professional
' hunter whoa ' years have bwn spent In
. the search for Ivory over the veldta and
Jungles of Hast Africa, relates In Hamn
ten's Msgaalne aome experiences In the
wUda, with apeclai reference to President
Roosevelt' hunt. The captain says, in
part:
The experience President Roosevelt haa
rained hunting game on the North Ameri
can continent will be of little use to him
on his expedition Into the wild of East
Africa. Hunting In America la a sport,
something to be played at; hunting In
Africa la m trade, almost profession. In
America one merely tks a rifle and goea
out to shoot..' In Africa, to hunt a la
mode, one takea a battery of arms, usually
three and sometimes four, high power
rifle of different caliber, ranging from six
and five-tenths millimeter to a 600 cordite
express. The cartridges for these rifles
are oharged with various bullets, solid
nickel, steel, soft nose long, soft nose short
and split
Specially Deslgaed Ballets.
Bach of these bullets was designed by
experts for a apeclai use, and on the way
they are used depends the success of one's
hot. Often the use of the unsuitable bul
let ends on the hunter's death. On small
game the light caliber arm, tlx five-tenths
millimeter, hi used, and on large end dan
geroua game the nine millimeter Mauser
and 800 caliber cordite express give the best
results. The last named rifle strikes the
enormous blow of 8.700 pounds, and haa a
recoil of 'close : on 100 weight. That the
.man whose hunting experiences has been
confined to bird shooting with shotguns,
or small game, with, .say, a thirty-two
cOlber rifle, may understand the meaning
of theae figures, let me state that the
ordinary' thirty-two caliber rifle had a
recall of perhaps ten to twelve pounds.
The double-barrel shotgun, which "to the
ordinary hunter seems to have all the
"kicking" capacity any weapon needs, has
a recoil of from twenty-five to thirty
pounds.
The 00 caliber cordite express Is the most
deadly hand arm made.
Notwithstanding (he terrific force of this
000 express bullet it must be placed In the
correct part of an elephant's or a rhinoc
eros' anatomy to bring . him down. The
hunter must put the shot Into the animal's
had or heart, or he must faoe a charge
that will probably end In his destruction.
Rifles of various caliber are carried for
economy. It Is cheaper to use a small six
five-tenths millimeter rifle on small game,
a nine millimeter on rredium game, and a
tlx hundred express on big game, than to
carry one weapon for all-round work,
which would have to be big enough at
least for the largest game. Nothing smaller
than a four hundred and fifty . express
would do for that, and It would be dis
tinctly uneconomical, not to say foolish, to
hoot a small antelope, the slxe of a goat,
with a six hundred exrrtss. . It would be
like using a pile driver to kill a mosquito.
Again, cartridges boccme very costly by
the time they reach the Interior of Africa.
A cartridge for a six hundred express rifle,
for Instance, costing -pence, (U cents) In
London, reaches an enormous price by the
time it gets Into the hunting grounds of
Africa. X have seen them bring t shillings.
Elephant Haatlagr.
Most game drops at the first shot from
the rifle of an experienced hunter. "The
game that makes the story Is the game
that's missed," as the Bwahlll (East coast
natives) say, and there Is nothing truor
than that saying, as far as my experi
ences go, for a bad ahot nearly ended my
trek a little while ago In the lake coun
try. I was treking between Lake Albert
Edward N'Tania and Lake Klvu, the
greatest stretch of hunting ground In the
world, with a caravan of a hundred men.
We had marched steadily through the early
part of the day and, now that the merci
less white-hot sun was directly overhead,
1 called a halt Each member of the
caravan threw himself down In the shade,
excepting my shikaree Nick, a "boy" front
the other side of the continent, a native of
Senegal. He never rested, and as he got
a percentage of the Ivory we secured, he
never let the soles of his feet grow soft
for want of exercise. About an hour passed
before Nick came swinging Into camp with
his white teeth gleaming like new swords.
I knew by his smile that there waa some
thing afoot Hs walked straight to my
elephant guns and beckoned me. I . knew
he had struck a fresh spoor (trail). Seising
my arms, I signaled my gun bearer and
truck out Nick leading.
i If there are any elephants about at mid
day, the hunter Is pretty sure to make a
good bag, for at that time they rest out
of the direct rays of the sun,- dosing the
hot hour away, and are easily approached.
Ilghtla; tfce Qasae.
Aftsr half an hour's walk through grass
that waa at least twenty feet high, w
came across a herd of about twenty ele
phants, among' which there were some fine
bull tuskers. As I expected, they were all
resting eut of the sun. They were diffi
cult to get at on account of the thickness
of the undergrowth. It meant a long, pa
tient crawl to a good shooting position,
for to shoot at anything but close quarters
la such country meant that the bullet
would be deflected by the buah. I put a
olid nickel ball In the right barrel of my
six-hundred caliber express rifle for a head
hot and a soft nose split In the left
barrel for a body shot With the shikaree
at my side and the gun bearer at my
back, we crept silently. Inch by Inch, foot
by foot, through the huge tufts 'of grass
till good view of the game presented It
self. I took off my coat and hat. hung them
on a low limb and crawled a few yards
farther oa. As I could not get a vital shot
t aay f the elephants In their lying
position, I gave a sharp whistle. In an In
stant they were upon their feet, thrusting
. their trunks up la the air to get a scent
f their enemies end holding out their
enormous sera to catch the slightest sound.
At last am old bull worked Into the right
position. I aimed at his weakest point be
tween the eye end ear, and gave him the
seltd she. My aim waa bad; a piece of his
tusk flew Into the air. With a roar hs
harged down on me like an avalanche. .
A tie Call.
1 lewled by express fnr a second shot and
the native stood resdy, Down he csme,
the grass waving before him In billows. I
waited fifty, forty, thirty, twenty yards,
another second's suspense snd bang! I
gave htm the soft bullet full In the chest.
It failed to stop him. A screeching roar of
sain burst front the charging monster and
blood gushed from his trunk. I snatched
say Mauser aad Jumped aside as he passed.
My hat aad eeat, which were few yards
behind, attracted his attention. With a
abort C aatlefaoUos) a eruefced them down.
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I cave him ell my Mauser shots In the
rear. With extraordinary suddenness he
turned, lie sighted me and charged, his
tusks level with my. body. My. magaslne
waa empty. I threw my .rifle down and
ran, the elephant gaining on me at each
step. I saw NU'k ahead of me with leveled
rifle.
To keep running meant that I would soon
be overtaken. Instinctively I threw myself
on the ground and Nick fired. With a thud
that made the earth tremble the elephant
dropped. The huge trunk twisted like a
wounded anake for a moment and then the
gigantic body relaxed In death. It all took
aboutf two minutes to happen and waa a
pretty close shave, but It was worth the
trouMe, for the tusks we got wars big,
weighing close to 100 pounds.
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so eta Wales.
News of the death at Bathurst, New
South Walts of Fltigerald, the "Hairy
Man," acknowledged to be the greatest all
around athlete of Australia, haa Just been
received In New York. A writer of the
World geU this off:
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fact that Fttsgorald. the 'Hairy Mail,'
was the peer of all athletic performers
since Finn McC'ool'a time," said Martin
Bherldan. It was Martin who originated
the idea of bringing the Australian whirl
wind to this country. "As compared with
him moat of us so-called world-beaters are
cripples. He had ua all standing still. I
hesrd my father tell about him when I
was back home after the Olympic racket
last summer, and I decided to look up his
record. It had never reached this country
because of Its slae. Not a boat largs
snouti to hold It could be found.
"lie excelled in everything hs put bis
hand or foot to. He died In Australia,
but Ireland can rightfully claim him as
lta own because he .was born In Clonmel,
County Tipperary, seventy-two years ago.
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Boru, the original heavyweight battles x
wlelder of the world. Like the great Boru,
Fits wan a modest fellow and not given to
boasting. He used to wield a thirty-six-pound
ax, whereas Brian's best waa a
thirty. By trade Fits was a mountain
pusher, being In great demand by railroads
who wanted an uneven bit of ground
cleared off without going to the trouble of
hiring a mob of laborers. Fits would lean
against a hill and push It Into another
county. It was nothing for him to go Into
a valley and reach out and pull the two
aides together. -
"My father had seen him perform hun
dreds of limes. The old man tells me that
he used the ("riving wheel of a locomotive
as a discus when he entered thst event.
In Jumpng events he didn't dare let him
self out for tear of Jumping outalde the fair
grounds. His greatest performance as a
pole vaulter was when he didn't come down
fur three days. They were Just about to
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send a nock of balloons to find him when
he landed outside the city line. lie said he
wouldn't have come down then If It hadn't
been pay day. 11 did the 100 yarda so fast
that none of the atop watches could catch
the tune.
"One day they tried to hand It to him and
he fooled them. It was in the one-mile run.
He was to bs handlcaped half a mile, have
his less tied together and be blindfolded,
lis came In backward and beat his field
by seven lengths. Then he got mad at the
job they put up and quit Ireland forever.
He broke all records In Australia and en
tered the whisker Marathon with the Seven
Sutherland fillers, which he won ty a
hair."
Km joloales.
Uncle Jerry Peebles, who had taken a
seat In the amoklng car, had filled his pipe
snd waa about to hunt In his coat pocket
fur a match, when a large man of much
equatorial diameter aat down In the va
cant seat by tils aide, complacently crush
ing him against the side of the car and
almost obliterating bun. .
Uncle Jerry said nothing and proceeded
In hie search for a match. It was hard
work to get his hand down between him
self and the fat man, but he found the
jxx-ket at laat and took out three or four
matches, all of which went out as he
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"Tour welcome." said the portly man J
Seeing down at him ovsr his shoulder.
InT" yUr l" bad my hand
"It was."
"Well." said Unole Jerry, as hs lighted '
his pipe, -all I've (puff) got to say (puff,
puff) Is that you buy duxoed iioor
matches." hlcago Tribune.
