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Show HUNTING LIONS AND ANTELOPE. When Thorn. is Carnahan of Ogden arrives at ElizabethviUe, In Belgian iCongo, he will be in a region where lion hunting is not so much a sport as a contest in which mans skill is agaln8t the power, agility and cunning of the king of beasts, and the victory ma go to either side. Within a year I i sixteen Kaffir "bovs" had been killed' by the man eating lions around Eliza-j bethville. When one goes out to hunt, with a fair prospect of being eaten alive, he is indulging in a game that should have all the thrills necessary to satisfy the most ardent lover of adventure. Yet Thomas Carnahan is not going to hunt wild animals. He is to engage In the higher purpose of directing the digging of copper from the dosposlts In the Congo which extend ex-tend lu miles But Mr. Carnahan is to write a series of letters to The Standard, and it is Just possible a number of Ogden sports; In reading of the stalking of the lions, will follow I the Ogden man to the Congo and offer of-fer themselves as meat for the b of the Jungles. At times one is persuaded that no wild corners are to be found, so rapid has been the sweep of civilisation. Yet 'not only In Africa but in Asia great areas remain to be reduced to the mastery mas-tery of man. A naturalist, who has been in distant Mongolia, near Crg-i, says : "At one time my wife and I found a (herd of at least 2000 antelope. Th- plain was yellow with them and j seemed to be moving in every direction. direc-tion. It was one of the most extraordinary extraor-dinary sights I have ever seen. However, How-ever, the dust made it impossible to distinguish individuals in shooting and I got only three from the herd. "The leaves are now( turning and it is wonderful autumn weather Never have we seen such marvelous Cowers as those on nil the hills and valleys, both on the plains and in the forest. Masses upon masses of bluebells and forget-me.nots so that they look like a vast blue blanket spread over the ground. All In all, this is the most delightful de-lightful place in which to spend a sum mer that I have found in all my wan derings. "Mrs. Andrews and I have had some great shooting at antelope and obtained ob-tained important data on the speed these animals can reach. I found that the Mongolian antelope can travel trav-el at 50 miles an hour with comparative compara-tive ease, and I believe can reach 60 miles an hour for short stretches, it is almost unbelievable, but nevertheless neverthe-less true. Later, when hunting on horseback, I found that a young antelope ante-lope two days old, can almost equal the speed of a fast horse At four or five days old. no horse could catch a young antelope." |
