Show I SPEARING OF LON LION BY Roosevelt Party Witnesses an Exacting and Unusual Scene in Africa KERMIT IN GREAT LUCK SUCCEEDS IN KILLING A BONGO WHICH ANIMAL IS RARE Nairobi British East Africa Dee Dec U 11 UA A long stream of porters came winding across the he veldt toward the station at NaIrobi lookIng for al all the world like a string of of anta The Stars and Stripes were h held ld alof aloft ant by a giant Star and th the sound of hors horns made strange discords with the chanting of the weird and elusive Safari song Sho Shortly t Colonel Roosevelt arved arrived on the back of his favorite horse I Tranquillity I It was the end of his last trip In the East African protectorate protectorate ThIs SafarI which was the fourth to tob tobe b be made out of Nairobi gave Colonel Roosevel Roosevelt and his party an opportunity to witness an exciting event at A E Hoys farm at In the spearIng of a lon lion by Nandi warriors Warriors Were Eager Seventy had ben been asked to take part In the drive and the they assented readily for when a warrior spears a alon alion lon lion ho becomes a leader of the fighting section of the trIb ma may wear a head headdress headdress dress formed of the lons lions mane and may walk at the he head d of the fe file of the NandI warriors when en the march hen on these hunts they display extraordinary courage I The band of seventy almost naked Jen wih with their long sharp spears and at attended tended by the chosen spectators the lat hat latter hatter ter bing being mounted proceeded dow down a Ion long I vale valley where the grass was thick Thorn trees lined Is its edges Soon a lon lion was seen not more than 4 yards In front I Immediately the warriors gave chase and andIn andin In less than two miles they had rounded up the king of the wilderness The horse horsemen men then approached and It was seen I that the lion at bay was a fully gown grown I one The began their task of surrounding the quarry Every man went to his position and the circe circle slow slowly closed In on the snarling bat beast which swIshed Is Its tall tail and kept up a continual roaring Lion at Bay BayThe BayThe The warriors drew to within some twenty t ty yards of him and the horsemen cosed up to see the ki kill Three time times the lon lion made a savage charge at the now stationary warriors but stopped short each time roaring I In Impotent rag rage The attacking party part advanced to within tel ten yards of their victim One las last desperate effort ar axtT lie he dived directly at the lne line only to fal fall with ten spears quivering In his body But In that brief moment he managed to drag dOwn one of thena the an tives his claws sinking Into the mans fesh flesh The death of the lon ii n seemed to awaken an all the r re in n the warrIors blood The They began a a dance of triumph arund around the bd body waving their bloodstained spears some of which were bent by the force of the shock shock holding their shields above their heads and uttering bloodcurdling yells In the meantime the Injured man was being gWen gen medical ad and he be bre bore te the paIn of his wounds without a asig sig sign of concern He who first jabbed his spear through the lon lion joined In the dance at the start but soon retired to toa toa a distance where he seated himself ap apparently apparently indifferent to the antics of his fellows He was now a leader of men and must therefore not show sigs signs that he had done anythIng out of the ordinary nary Kermit Luck The luck of Kermi Kermit Roosevel Roosevelt has been proverbial While Colonel Roosevelt was hunting with Lord Delamere Kerit Kermit went with R B CoIl Cole and his war warriors warriors The are adopts adepts at killing bingo which are rare and to be found only In the forest forests In a short space of time the younger Roosevelt had obtained a large and fine female bongo and one young oung bongo This was a feat of whIch an any old hunt hunter er might justy justly be proud for no white whiteman whiteman man has ever eyer before stalked and shot a bongo There are only two cases on re tee ord of a white man shooting bongo with the aid of the natives and their dogs So pleased was one of the residents here herewith herewith with the success of the youth that he presented Kermit wih with a fine specimen of the male bongo and so the Smith Smithsonian son Ian institution wi will have hae a complete family y one In the world |