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Show HUNTING EXTRAORDINARY. Hunters who have to go long distances dis-tances to kill game will be interested in an account of hunting In the Mississippi Mis-sissippi valley a hundred years ago. During the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1S05 the abundance of game was at once a source of satisfaction and danger dan-ger to the explorers. Lewis writes: "On the lower portion of the Missouri, from Its Junction with the Mississippi to the entrance of the Osage river, we met with some deer, bear and turkeys. From thence to the Kansas river tho deer were more abundant. A great number of black bear, some turkeys, geese, swan and ducks. From thence to the mouth of the great river Platte an Immense quantity of deer, some bear, elk, geese, turkeys, swan and ducks. From thence to the river Sioux some bear, a great number of- elks. From thence to the mouth of White river vast herds of buffalo, elk and some deer and a greater quantity of turkeys than we had before seen, a circumstance which I did not expect in a country so destitute of timber. Hence to Fort Mandan the buffalo, elk and ,deer Increase In quantity, with the addition ad-dition of the cabra, as they arc generally gener-ally called by the French, which Is a creature about the size of a small deer Its flesh Is djllciously flavored." After Af-ter members of the party had experienced experi-enced some exciting adventures with grizzly bears, Lewis wrote: "I find that the curiosity of our party is pretty well satisfied with respect to this animal. ani-mal. He has staggered the resolution of several of them. These bears being so hard to die rather Intimidates us all. I must confess that I do not iiko the gentlemen, and would rather fight two Indians than one bear." One night a buffalo bull charged their camplirc and hunted the explorers In an exciting manner for a few minutes. A recent exploration of the back districts dis-tricts of Rhodesia led to the following report of the hunting to be found there: "Along the Luapula river there Is a splendid lot of water fowl and other birds. The following animals were met with and are pretty evenly distributed, generally retiring to the rivers and marshy places In the dry season and coming out again Into the open In the wet months: The lion, the leopard, serval, spotted hyena, giraffe, zebra, roan antelope, sable antelope, Llchtensteln's hartcbest, tsessebc, water wa-ter buck, puku, red lechwe, black lechwe, kudu, sltunga, bushbuck 1m-pala, 1m-pala, duiker, bluebuck. oribl, buffalo, wart hog and hippopotamus. Eland and sable antelope are very pletlful all along the Kfue river, and both grow very large there. Lions are found there, too. Of giraffe there is a small herd very much spread out in a small stretch east of Luanga river. Toward the east, near the Muchlnga hills, which have a rise of 3000 feet, rhlnocer-ous rhlnocer-ous abound and are grand sport. The hills are steep, covered with large stones and long grass. There is an elephant reserve covered the whole of tho marshy ground around Lake Mweru." Capt. Svcrdrup, the Arctic explorer, writes in his recent volume of tho hunting to be had near the North Pole. Walruses and seals were harpooned and shot, and the large Arctic hare, which seems to have contracted tho |
