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JOTTINGS-FROM A FORESTER'S DIARY

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1899.

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Just over the ridge there was the whisk of a tail and there stood a cow with end on ta ús. grazing quietly-evidently the last of the herd over Andi's face, and I felt almost hysterical and quite unsuspicious. A pleased grin spread with excitement. Slowly, very slowly, the dark form moved onward and disappeared over the ridge, and very slowly and cautiously did we creep forward. We could distinctly hear the whole herd browsing and grazing about just over the ridge. Forward foot by foot did I creep, now of course leading, and when we topper the ridge we cowered in some longish grass for there was the whole herd not 30 yards from us grazing unconcernedly. We could not detect the bull though and peering about in all directions, when a cow at us. It was a very fre cow, and I was very suddenly threw up her head and came straight excited so I hope you will all forgive me, brother sportsmen, when I say I convered her behind the shoulder and fired. There was the usual mad rush, when suddenly Andi clutched front. There to my astonishment I saw a fac my arm desperately and pointed straight in bull standing practically in the very place I had seen and fired at the cow.

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After years of impechalosity I at lust managed to buy a big bore rifle, a S. 13, 8-bore, by Joseph Bourne, 'n rifle which must have had great ex periences before it came info iny hands, having belonged to that good and true sportsman Major Ochterlony, one of the pioneers of coffee planting on the Nilgiris was stationed in the heart of a magnificent bison country, hut one which had been mather shot out at that time, as far as big balls were concerned, by sportsmen from all parts of India, My chief, too, a most ardent and successful shikari, had shot a lot of bulls and also ibex in the adjoin ing hills. Who that has over been at Mount Stuart in the Coimbatore Animalais, between September and February, will ever forget it for its delightful climate, scenery and shooting: but also alas! who will ever forget it who hus had the misfortune to be there, as the present writer has, during the rest of the year, for its heavy and continuous rain and general unheal thiness. There were two settlements of jungle tribes up there in my time of most opposite chamcteristics. The Kaders dwellers as much as possible on the hills, and the evergreen or shot, and knowing there was no time to waste I had instinctively reloaded after my first semi-evergreen forest, proud of their caste, loth to work, and of course non-eaters of beef in bull had made up his mind to follow his harem. I threw up my rifle again and fired just as the any form and as a rule very poor shikaris, these had their "had" at Ulandi just across a pass Blood was splashed all over the leaves and Quickly jumping up we followed the tracks, in a range of hills between the Tunacadaen grauad, and within 40 yards we came upon the and the Periar valley's. The Mulcers, the other cow dead. This not only did unt interest me, tribe, were dwellers-in-the-valley-forests,-in-bur I already fell heartily ashamed of myself. apparently the most deadly places, a hardy especially as my boss was in coup with me robust race, though as a rule very little astec and be, I know, good sportsman and kind and absolute gorgers of bison beef although friend as he was, would not say much but they would not eat the ordinary or garden cow. As shikaris.as keen as mustard and splendid found lots of blood on the bull's tracks. would think a lot. To my joy then we trackers.

We followed him up same way, but it was rapidly getting dark, the undergrowth was very thick and as the bull would have about to to t the best of us if he charged I reluctant- ly gave it up and went back to Alt. Stuart, thoroughly done up and not altogether happy. which we did not reach till past 8 o'clock However my chief let me down very lightly, and next day to make a long story short Andi and relief, and to his own great profit as I went and brought in the bull's head to my joy promptly paid him fifty of the best" which 1 fat promised him for my first bull bison.

Fuckle princeps among them was "Andi "Andi, the incomparable, until the too lavisli presents of successful sportsmen and conse quant orgies made him get considerably above himself, and I hear he lost the post he had in the Forest Department. What has become of him now I do not know. At the time of which I write Andiwas in his prime. Never so much so as when he could get rid of his rarest guard's uniform and return to his natural costume of a very evil-smelling cloth, which had once been white in days long ago, This, well tucked up round his loins, was his sole adornment, and his sole equipment a knife, without which no jungle man considers himself safe. There were several other good trackers among the Mulcers, but Andi was the acknowledged head man, and I fear I forget the names of the others who always attended him to spread out and pick up a lost track, to hark back and to carry one's spare guns.

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CHICAGO COLLAPSE.

CITY GROWING SUPERSTITIOUS OVER THE FATE OF HIS VARIOUS COLISEUMS

account at the bad fuck attending the various All Chicago is growing superstitious on Coliseuns which have been erected there.

THE GOLD MINING INDUSTRY

OF THE TRANSVAAL,

Reporting upon the gold mining industry of the Transvaal in 1898, the State Mining En gineer states that the number of mining com- panies paying dividends increased from 27 in 1897 to 45 last year, and the amount distributed in dividend, which in 1897 was £2,943,831, rose last year to £5,089,715, that being at the mate of 23.05 per cent. on the capital of the com panies. In 1897 there were 64 companies, with a capital of £14,018,734, which were producing, but not paying, dividends, while in 1898 the number of companies in this category fell to 52, with a capital of £14,654,636. Of non-pro- 106, and in 1898 it was reduced to 4o, so that ducing companies, the number in 1897 was

making allowance for companies that entered the producing and dividend paying stage, it will be companies ceased working operations dur

seen that a large number of

most part of a worthless character, that bad ing the year. These, however, were for the been foisted upon the public during the South African boom. The total gold production for 1898 amounted to 16,240,630, as compared with £1,653.725 in 1897, and out of this total output the Witwatersrand produced 93.20 per

cent.

The mills contributed 65.68 per cent. of, centage than in 1897 from chemical treatment, the output, that being a slightly smaller per- 34-29 per cent. was derived, one-fifth of which The average per ton of ore was 40s 7d per ton, was obtained from the treatment of slimes. as compared with 395 od in 1897, this improve ment in grade, we are told, being entirely due to the improved sorting appliances, combined the closing of several of the low-grade propo. with the additional extraction from slimes, and sitions.

THE WELLMAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS.

A dispatch from Tromsoe (Norway) of August 17th states that Walter Wellman and the survivors of the Polar expedition led by him have arrived on the steamer Copella, having successfully completed their explorations in Franz Josef Land. Mr. Wellman has discovered important new lands and many islands,

The expedition brings a grim story of Arctic tragedy. In the autumn of 1898 an outpost called Fort McKinley was established in latitude 8: It was a house built of rocks and roofed over with walrus hide. The Norwegians, Paul Bjorvig and Bert Bentzen, the latter of there. The main party wintered in a canvas- whom was with Nansen on the Fram, remained

Tegethof on the southern point of Hall's Island, covered but called Harmsworth-House, at Cape

Jatitude 86*.

The first collapsed unaccountably in 1895 the second was burned dots in 1897; and the third, in process al construction, recently swerved and by a symmetrical movement fell

About the middle of February, before the rise northwards, killing nine and injuring eighteen with three Norwegians and forty-five dogs of the sun above the horizon, Mr. Wellman The cause of the latter disaster is obscure, for

started north. It was the earliest sledge best quality provided, by the Pittsburg Bridge Fort McKinley, Mr. Wellman found Hentzen Company.

dead, but Bjorvig, according to promise, had kept the bady in the house, sleeping beside it through two months of Arctic darkness. Notwithstanding his terrible experience the survivor was safe and cheerful,

The maident will probably strengthen the agitation in New York against framework skyscrapers.

DEFYING BOLTS AND BARS.

DRAMATIC STORY OF AN ESCAPE FROM PORTLAND.

Interviewed after the filure of his applica tion for a summons against the Police Comfident of reaching latitude 87 or 88", if not the missioner at Bow-st,, Bartlett, the ex-convici, a little old man, told the following astounding story of his escape from Portland in 1868.

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Pushing northwards through rough ice and severe storms, with a continuous temperature for ten days of between 40 and 50 degreesHE halow zero, the party found new lands north of Freedom Island, where Nansen landed in 1895.

By the middle of March all hands were con

ters. Mr. Wellman, while leading the party. Pole itself. Then began a succession of disas.

fell into a snow-covered crevasse, seriously retreat. Two days later the party was aroused injuring one of his legs and compelling a

due to pressure. In a few moments many at midnight by an ice-quake under them, dogs were crushed and the sledges des troyed. The members of the expedition nar rowly escaped with their lives, though they managed to save their precious sleeping bags convict who had got a and some dogs and provisions.

of hoop-iron. That seemed like a godsend

"One day I managed to pick up a small piece Every time I visited the lavatory I took that iron-hooping with me and worked like a nigger to make it into a saw, I did it in fear and trembling, for the slightest sound would have betrayed me, and instead of liberty should have had the cat. Then another stroke of luck awaited me. I found

little bit of file, He had no ambition, and said the file was no good to him. dinner for it, and with the file I was able to complete the saw. Then I managed by work- ing stealthily every evening after I had been locked up for the night, 10 saw through the wood flooring of my cell.

WEARY WORK,

Mr. Wellman's condition became alarming, Norwegians dragged him on a sledge, by forced gave him-myinflammation having set in, and the brave

arriving there early last April. Mr. Wellman marches, nearly 200 miles to headquarters, is still unable to walk and will probably be -permanently-crippled

After reaching headquarters other members of the expedition explored regions hitherto un- known, and important scientific work was done States Weather Bureau, Dr. Edward Hofman, by Lieutenant Evelyn B. Baldwin of the United of Grand Haven, Mich., and A. Harlan of the United States Coast Survey.

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The 4th of November, 1888, then at sam found me ready, after a hasty chota hazri of toast and tea, for a day out after bison. "Andi" and his friends were of course waiting as keen as to get off Mount Stuart was so situated, that a very early start was not really necessary as bison tracks were often picked up close to the bungalow. At the time, however, I was widening and trying to improve the road to the plains and laying down a tramway thereon for the foundation was of solid ironwork of the joumey on record in that latitude. On reaching AUSTRALIAN 5.5. Co. and vice verså. timber transport. Nearly 300 coolies at work, and repeated dynainite blasting did not, couse, tend to pacify bison or other denizen's of the jungle, so after a short consultation as to whether we should go towards Sungam o Tunacadaon, we eventually went down the hill towards the latter place, right at the bottom of the valley. Here, in former days, the Forest Officer in charge used to live, deadly hole it would be hard to imagine, its redeeming feature being that it com manded a lively view of a waterfall which in the rains was decidedly worthy of a visit. The morning was cold and bracing; we negotiated the rocks over the waterfall and got into some rather thick ald Kumri (taungya or Auckle) full of lantana. In ten minutes we were Arenched with the dow. Andi was evidently making for some pet spot as he was going hard. with no attempt at stalking, when suddenly with a ruth and a crash off charged a herd of bison to our right. It was impossible to see anything, so we stood absolutely still and heard them go down the incline to our right and cross the stream samo way below the waterfall. The clattering caused by this now ceased and all was still. Quietly but rapidly we pushed along the tracks, which of course were very plain, and for four hours did we plod on, the herd jinking repeatedly, always to get our wind, and then off for a burst of a mile or so..It was on such occasions that Andi showed his masterly skill. He suddenly stopped, pulled out his roll of tobacco and bit and a chew-all-round- followed advising me at the samo time to take my tiffin which had brought within a small

"Every night I had to replace the boards, so bag. This I hurriedly did, washed down with

that the warders should not see what I had a great drink of water. We had had a very with sheet iron, but I eventually got through done. The space beneath my cell was lined hard time of it and I was saturated both with dew and perspiration. Andi and my gunbear and saw my way clear to liberty.

that with my file. Then I got into an air-shalt, ers were now ready and off the great man started in the opposite direction, to which the "With my sheets 1 had made a rope, and as tracks were leading. In my best Tamil I pro-luck would have it I had picked up a piece of tested as I thought he had given it up, but no,

wood called a 'dog," with iron hooks at each simply saying "It's all right sir, we shall pick end. Then I went down the passage it had up their tracks over at the foot of those hills taken ine three months hard labour to make. (the Vegali range), Or he went and right enough we did, the bison having gone round in a semicircle, after reaching the compartiment we were then telling over where the smell of humans was too much for them. They had now quietened, down considerably having started grazing although still travelling. The wind, too, was favourable what little there was, and for two or three hours we toiled on almost noiselessly, continually stopping and listening, not a sound though to be heard except the occasional phatter of a Malabar aquirrel as he looked down upon us from above and swore volubly jerking his tell the while to lend emphasis apparently to his bad language. On we crawled the ladder. A few minutes afterwards shots "I turned round and saw a guard looking at throw the fire, line and path running up

the land gap until it looked very were fired and a bell was rung. My escape. much as if they were making for Kharian Shola had been discovered. Guards were running by It was now getting late, we had a long way to

in all directions, but unperceived I got through get back, but as there was a determined look the window of the Roman Catholic Chapel, on Andi's face jald low. Suddenly, for and concealed myself beneath the Communion reasons only known to the bovine mind, wa

table. saw that the whole bord had turned at right angles and were making straight up the hill side as if to cross the range. I have mentioned several times as dividing the Parla and Tanacadaon valleys, And! stopped, scratched his head, spat copiously and looked at me. "Well I said they are going: the range It's very late, we had better chuck it, or its equivalcht in Tamil was his reply. The hill was steep, and experience had not then taught me that bison seldom potter about grazing on a steep hillside, so not to be beat and determined to blood my new rifle I decided to go on, Lord, what a struggle that wad he mugge had teeded two years previously and the whole place was thickly strewed with them. The struggle to get over or under these quietly with at the sama timp every sense on the alert for the slightest noise, my pulses throbbing with excitement and the weight of my 8-bore which had refused to relinquish after we got on their tracks for the second time, allicombined to make that up-hill climb one I shall never forget

over

A TERRIFIC LEAP,

in the open air, and managed to throw the "After lifting an iron grating I found myself books on my linen ladder over a wall. By this quarters. From the roof I had to jump on to means I got on to the roof of the officers

Then I got to the ground by means of my linen a boundary wall about soft-or raft, distant ladder,

heard footsteps approaching, and I rushed "Whilst making a desperate tug at the ladder into the garden of the Grove public-house.

FIRING THE ALARM.

chapel for 33 hours, during which period a Having told how he lay concealed in the service was held, Bartlett stated that he after- wards broke into the Clifton Hotel, where he found some bread and meat, cheese, and

tobacco, a hat and some clothes.

SIX DAYS IN A CHAPEL,

"I returned to my hiding-place in the chapel," made a pair of trousers, and put on another of Bartlett proceeded, "and out of a black coat 1 the stolen coats which happened to be made of velvet. The food I divided into six portions, I and for six days I was concealed beneath that Communion table. There were frequent services, and what was still worse, the priest used to come in at night for private devo tions. At last I had more than enough of it and broke into the priest's house with the object of obtaining some money, I could find none, however Thera-was-some- silver plate, but that was of no use to me. obtained a white stole, however, and with that made something resembling a shirt. Feeling

How eagerly looked forward through the trees and bamboos for the sky which would show the top wax mehr. Quietly we struggled on, until we were within 30 yards or so of the top, when stopped And with a click of my tongue, and sat down and rested to try and got my breath a bit A crack ala bamboo, and we sat breathless listening, when suddenly

I

w fairly confident as to my appearance 1 walked down the road and saw a milkman svho, afterwards found, gave information about

me

Finally Bartlet; described his flight across country, his ultimate captive about 19 miles from Portland, and his sentence of eight years' penat servitude for the burglary of the Clifton Hotel

The expedition killed fourteen bears and many walruses.

The Capella. arrived at Cape Tegethof in search of the expedition on July 27th last. On August 9th she met the Silla Polar, bearing the expedition headed by rince Luigi, Duke reconnaitre the north-west coast of Franz Josef of Abruzzi, which had sailed from Archangel to Land and to meet, if possible, the Wellman ex- pedition. Mr. Wellman and his companions missing aeronaut, Prófessor Andrea. found not a trace in Franz Josef Land of the

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AND WATCHMAKERS, Bole Agents in the East for the amaigamated CLEMENT, HUMBER and GLADIATOR Co, Lt. DUNLOP TYRES'S BICVOLEB-PRICE...3100 A special reliable Watch made for this-Climate

Quality A..........

.$16 Qually

40, QUEEN'S ROAD,

Watson's dinu::

MEE CHEUNG, PHOTOGRAPHER,

TOP FLOOR OF ACE HOUSE, IN" Ice-House Roja..

modious Premisen, to callpro, as heretofore S naw in a position, in his New and Come ALL PHOTOGRAPHIC ART PRACTICED in the Colony or in any part of the Far East;

GROUPS AND VIEWS:

a spoclälity. (1684) Hongkong, aand September 1898,

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