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PASSENGER SEASON 1910.
IN 25 DAYS ΤΟ ITALY
BY THE
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"PRINZESS ALICE". Capt. P. GROSCH.
“KLEIST"
Capt. O. PANNIS.
« PRINZ LUDWIG ”
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9,000
ON MARCH 23RD.
ON APRIL 6TH.
9,630 +
ON APRIL 20TH.
MB., ROOSEVELT LION
HUNTING
(Continued from púga 3)
hand, was one to be remembered, and above, all, the sight of our trophied and their will'
DUSTEES,
WAS
Three days later we had another successful Hon hant. Our osmp was pitched at a water- hole in a little stream exiled Potha, by a hill of the same name. Pease, Medlinett, and both the. Hills were with an, and Holler came too, for he liked, when possible, to be with the hunters, so that he could at once esen for any beast that was shot. As the safari stationary we took fifty or sixty porters B beators. It was thirteen hare botare' we got into camp that evening: The lid had with them as beaters and water-carriers half a dozen of the Wakamba who wore working on farm. It was interesting to watol these naked savages, with the fled teeth, their hesda shaved in curious patterns, and carrying for arms little bows and arrOWB..
A SUCCESSFUL BEAT Before lunch we beat aleng, low hill. Harold Hill was with me; Medlicott and Kermit were together. We placed grievous, one couple of
side of a qurrow
two-thirds of the way along the rest of the hill and soon after we were in position wo hard the distant shouls of the beaters as they came toward na, cover- ing the crest and the top of the slopes on both kides. It
was rather disconcerting to find how.
Hill's eyes were
than mine. He zauch saw everything first, and it usually took some time before he could make mis soy it. In this Best drive nothing came my way except Bome mountain-reedback does, at which I did not shoot. But a fine male cheelali came to Kermit, and he bowled it over in good style as it ran.
Then the beaters halted and waited before resenting their march until the gang had gone clear round and stabilited themselves at the base of the farther end of the hill. This time Kermit, who was a couple of hundred yards from me, killed a reedback and asteinbuck Budderly Hill said, “Lion," and endeavoured to point it out to me, as it drept cnationaly among the rocks on
hun- the top hillside, a dred and fly
At Sist I could y yards not see it; finally I thought I did and fired, him above but, as it proved, st a place However, it made him start up and I inamo- silately put the net bullet behind his shoulders; it was a fatal shot; but, graflag te ktraggled down the hill, and I fired again and fled fitm. It was not much of a trophy, however, turning out to be a 1
half-grown
tuale. We lunched under a tree,
arranged for another best. There was a long, wide valley.
nd then
or rather a slight depression in the ground-for
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it was only three or four feet beint the general bright silver light, chatting in deep toners, over level in which the grass grow tall the land over again, line or phrase that sounded was gaite wet It was the sole of Percival's like
non-zou-boalé adventure with the lion that chase him. and I stationed ourselves on one niep of this valley or depression, toward the upper end; Pease took Kermit to the opposite side; and we waited, our horses of the lower end, distance behind us.
ejaopistion, founding like “Harlem. marobed into camp, then ap and down the The beaters' were put i formed a line across the valley. And boat slowly lines, before the rows of small free, then, socom. panied by all the rest of the porters, they toward us, making a great noise,
They were still some distance off when Hillparaded up to the big fire where I was standing. saw three Lions, which had shank stealthily off Hare they stopped, and ended the ceremony by minute or two's vigorens dancing, mid ding- ahead of them through the grase. I have called the grass tall, hat this was only by coming, and wild shouting. The firelight gleamed parison with the short grass of the dry plains and flickered across the grim doad beasts and In the depression or valley it wrag same thres the shining eyes and black features of the ex- feet high. In such grass a lion, which is mar elted savages, while all around the moon flooded vellously adept at hiding, can oily conceal the landscape with her white light.. iteolf, not merely when lying down, hat when advancing at croushing gait. If it stands erect, however, it can be seen
TWO MORE LIONS, There were
were two lions near ne, one directly in our front, a hundred and ten yards off. Soms seconde passed before Hill could make me realise that the dim yellow smear in the
I have no words to express my gratitude for yellow-brown grass was s lion; and then I found such diffionity in getting a bead on it that the kind treatment I have received during my overshot. However, the ballet must have passed stay in your copatry. I hog to assure you that very close-indeed, I think it juet grazed him
I am leaving for home with enthusiastic feel- for he jumped up and faced us, growling savagely ings of friendship towards your country and Then, his head lowered, he threw his
the friends I have made in this city. After I straight into the sir and began to charge. The
battlefelds, indestructible for ever, I had the honour, on the first few stays he took at a trot, and before he had visited the Manchurian could start into a gallop I put the soft-nosed occasion of this grand manoeuvres, of meeting Winchester bullet in between the neck and the military and naval officers who had made shoulder. Down he went with a roar the Japan famous the world ever. This is a grout wound was fatal, but I was taking no chances, happiness to me. I beg to hope that you will and I put two moro bullets into him. Then indly give my thanks to those friends who have walked toward where Hill had already seen another lion-the lions, as it proved. "Again" he had some dificulty in making me ses her but he encoded, and I walked toward her through the long grass, repressing the zeal of my two gun-bearers, who were atanol, but who showed tendency to walk a little ahead of me on each side, instead of a little bekind.
The Japan Masi, ay that when Field- Marshal Lord Kitchener was leaving Tokyo, his Lordship sent the following letter of thanka
to the Minister for War
entertained me with kindness and courtesy, as a brother-in-arms. On having the privilege of witnessing the greater part of the grand military maentres in your country, my ad miration of the dignity and the capacity of your army, which I have harboured for some Lime since, has been much deepened. I pray for the I walked toward her because I could not kneel future success of your army, and I firmly believe that your loyalty to His Majesty and to to shoot im grass so tall, sad when shooting the country and you spirit of faithfulness in off-hand I liked to be fairly close, so as to be duty will surely be productive of even greater sure that my bullets go in the right place. At
thank you with all my sixty yards I would make her out clearly, marl brilliance should a time of crisis again overtake ing at me as she faced me, and I shot her full this country. I bog in the chest,. She at once performed a series of extraordinary antics, tumbling atont on her head, just as if she were throwing somersaulte, fret to one side and then to the other. again, but managed to shoot between the sorter. seemed to bring her to herself, and away she tore, but instead of charging us she charged the line of beaters, She was dying fast, however, and in her weaknosa. failed to catch anyone, and she sank down into long grass. Hill and advanced to look her up, our riften nt full dock, and the gun-bearers close behind.
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It is ticklish work to follow a wounded lion in tall
grass, and we walked carefully, every sense on the alert. We passed Heller, who had been with the beaters. He spoke to us with an amused smile. His only weapon was a pair of field-glasses, but he always took things as they eame, with entire copiness, and to be close to wounded lines when she charged merely. interested him. A beater came running op and pointed toward where he had seen her, and we walked toward the ples. At thirty yards dix- tanco Hill
and eagerly peering, I made I pointed, out the form of the Lioness showing indistinctly through the grass She was half-c
f-crouching, half-sitting, her head bent down, but still had strength to do raischief. She bus before she could turn I sent a bullet through ber shoulders. Down the went, and was dead when we walked up. A cub had been seen, and another full-grown lion, but they had slank off, and we gut-neither.
but
This was a full grown, but young, lioness of average size. Her cube must have been several months old. We took her entire to camp to weighSho-roighed-283- pounds. The first lion, which wo had fanity in finding, as there were no identifying marks in the plain of tall grass, was a good-sized male, weighing about 400 pounds, but not yet full-grown, although be was probably the father of the cabe.
We were a long way from camp, and, after beating in rain for the other lion, we started back. It was after nightfall before we saw the camp fires. It was two hours later before the porters appeared, bearing on poles the skin of the dead lion, and the lionessentire. The moon was nearly fall, and it was interesting to see phem come swinging down the trail in the
heart for the kindness that you have favoured me with, in order to make my stay the more leave your country. The remembrance of the. delightful. It is with infinite regret that I great kindness, and courtesies acconded me by
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