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VOL XII.
LION-STALKING.
How the Bushmen of South Af¬
rica Hunt Big Game.
Wonderful Exhibition of En¬
durance and Pluck.
Here is an interesting little sketch
of Parker Gilmore which appeared in
the London Graphic describing how
the Bushmen go lion hunting:
As there are different races of Bush
mou. and they most materially differ
in appearance and modes of life, it is
desiiabie to point out that the two
meu who form a promiueut feature of
this sketch are of a breed of aborig
ines that at one time were numerous
in parts of the ‘‘Old Colony, ’ but
now are only to be found in Naina
qua or Damaraland, and along the
margin of the ltalihari desert. In
stature they are veritable pigmies,
live in caves, and go almost entirely
without clothing when in pursuit bf
gamo.
They are ■wonderfully expert and
fearless hunters, while their dogged
patience and resolution, combined
[With power to endure fatiguo and
hardship, are truly marvellous.
Although guns arc being gradually
introduced among these dwarf speci
mens of the human family, yet the
majority of them still prefer to use the
primitive weapons of their ancestors,
viz., bow with poisoned arrows, short
throwing assegais, with knobkeeries.
How they accomplish the death of a
troublesome lion—an aged brute that
has taken to man-eating—I will do my
best to describe; however, I should
state that as long as the lion behaves
himself—that is, confines himself to
killing game—he is treated with re
spcct; for the reason that the monarch
of the desert then provides the bush
people with many a meal of flesh
which . „ they „„ would not ... otherwise • oh- ,
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An aged animal driven off from bis
troop is almost invariably the offender,
and his presence in thc vicinity of the
residence of a family of Bushmen is
soon known by the disappearance of
stray goats and occasional pickanin.
nies. These depredations result In the
death of the marauder being resolved
on, and the following is the means
adopted to accomplish it:
Soon after sunrise vultures are oh
served circling round some spot in the
desert. This is au unfailing indica
tion of the presence of carrion. Two
of the most skilled hunters go in search
of the carcass, which generally turns
out to be that of a quaha or wilde
beest. From this “find” tho hunt
actually commences.
Let us examine tho copper-colored
dawrfs who are about to undertake a
task which many a brave man would
he excused for shrinking from, es
pecially when it is explained that one
alone carries weapons—a tiny bow
and qrrow the other being pro
vided with nothing more than his
skin kaross—a sleeping covering made
of the skins of small quadrupeds, and
about the size of a railway rug.
At first the work of the these two
plucky little fellows is easy enough,
for the spoor is generally distinct, and
well they know that their prey will
not “lie up” till it has drunk. In
time a vley or pool is reached; by its
side herbage has been pressed down
and broken, for at this spot the mam¬
moth cat has stretched at length and
drunk to his heart’s content.
Now commences more serious work,
for it is impossible to tell liow close
this lion is to them, and only up wind
can the dangerous brute be approached
close enough to afiord any prospect of
success. The spooring here becomes
slow; in singlo file it i3 conducted,
aud momentarily a halt is called to
listen for heavy breathing, or to sniff
if the air be tainted. By this time we
will imagine that the Sun has gained
meridian altitude, the hour when the
carnivora sleep soundest after a heavy
meal.
The advance of the two sons of the
desert is a wonderful performance;
it is the perfection of stalking; not
even one of the cat tribe could surpass
them. At length the Bushmen’s pa¬
tience is rewarded; they have heard,
smelt, or seen tho lion, and learned
all details of thc position he lies iu.
So,-ranging themselves side by side,
both exert their greatest ingenuity to
get close to the foe without being de*
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SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. SEPTEMBER 22, 1892.
tected. Their object is soon attained.
With a jerk the kaross is thrown ovei
the sleeping marauder’s head, and t
moment afterwards a poisoned arrow
is driven into his flank. Thus uncere¬
moniously awakened, he stops not to
learn who are his disturbers, but
bounds oil' into the veldt with but one
object.iu view, viz., escape. Two or
three hours afterwards the desert re¬
echoes the stricken beast’s roars of
pain, and ere the sun basset the grand
old beast has died.
The Eleventh Man,
-\y 0 stopped as a flag station to take
up a couple of men, and as they came
into the smoker all saw that they were
handcuffed together. It was easy
enough to identify the prisoner. He
was a gaunt-faced, long-haired man of
dejected demeanor, and he seemed
embarrassed at tbo sight of so many of
us.
‘*1 reckon yo’ can’t run from me
now,” said the officer as lie removed
the irons. “Sorry to liev put ’em on
ye at all, Jim, but I’m lame and can’t
lake chances.”
“Is the man going to prison?” was
the natural inquiry of one of the
passengers.
“A little wuss nor that, sail—lie’s
goin’ to the convict camp,” answered
the officer,
“For what crime?”
“It wasn’t much of a crime. I bo
lievo he stole co’n to feed his starvin’
fam’ly on.”
“And what is his sentence?”
“'Well, the jedge fined him $50 or
two years. He couldn’t pay of co’so,
and so he’ll serve out his two years,
if he don’t die. He’s feelin’ powerful
pore, and I reckon six mouths will
put him under the sod. Say, Jim, yo’
sot yere by yo’self while I go into the
fUr kyar to see Tom Jackson a minit.”
IIo no S0011C , dcparted than our
spokesman stood up and said:
“Gentlemen, .. this .... outrageous
is an °
shame. . „ Here . , being . sent to
is a man
a chain Z a "Z because ho stole a bushel
or 60 of C0l '“ to koc P lifo iu thc boilios
of wife alld chi,droa! r11 S ivc $ 10
f° W!Ut l Paying his fine. ’
‘‘So 11 II”
‘‘Soil 11’
Thcre wcr0 olevon of U8 iu the car -
Tou of U* crowd finally chipped In
8evcn dollai ' 8 a P ieco > % uri “S t0 g ivo
the man a show after his fine was
P abk ■' bo eleventh man brusquely
lc f ll9e d to give a shilling. Tho offi
cer 800,1 returned, fifty dollars of the
putse was given him, and at the next
6tatio “ the l mil ‘ g ot olL The prisoner
thanked us over and over, and all felt
am P ! y repaid. The attitude of the
eleventh man nettled us. Ho sat read-
5, ig and paid no attention to the sly
d*- 8 given him, but after a while,
when something pretty harsh was
flun S out, he closed the book, stood up
to face us, and calmly said:
“Gentlemen, I feel that I owe you
all an apology. Every one but me
sympathized with that poor man;
every one but me contributed to the
purse. My apology and my excuse is
that I’ve met the same pair five differ
ent times this week on five different
trains going in five different diree
tions, and I thought they were mak
ing a big divide without my dollars I”
—[New York Sun.
Where Science Fails.
After all, science cau scarcely ex¬
plain the way of anything. It merely
points out the order in which natural
processes occur. Preyer holds that
sleep is caused by the products of de¬
composition, lactic acid and creatin
taking up tho oxygen in the blood.
The functions of the gray matter of
the cortex cannot bo exercised without
a plenteous supply of arterial blood
any more than the zinc and copper of
a voltaic pile will evolve electricity
without sulphuric acid. Thus the
blood conveys a stimulus or imparts a
capacity to the nerve tissue during
waking, while during sleep it has a
separate and distinct function—that of
repairing waste. Apparently these
two processes cannot go on in tho
brain at once, or at least only to a de¬
gree too limited to prevent a speedy
exhaustion of the vital powers if sleep
be withheld.—[Chicago Herald.
The new Boston directory, which
has just been issued, contains 205,352
names. There were 46,405 new names
added this year aud 39,993 names
erased, i
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