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Show Lion Hunting in the Molopo Country By PERCY SELOUS Wherever guns are made and sold and game is hunted for the sake of the sport of it the nam' cf Sclous is familiar. The stories of his achievements circle the globe, and tens of thousand. of laser hunters feel honored to have hunted with him on occasion or to hare crossed his track or followed his trail, A confirmed nomad, a soldier of the chase by irresistible predilection, he has fprnt his life hunting, trapping and traveling, sometimes in the Canadian woods, sometimes in the forests of the Andes, sometimes in the pass of the Central Asian mountains, sometimes in the northern ice, sometimes in the African jungle, and the story of his hunting experiences is a romance ro-mance of fart and adventure. , A member of this famous family of hunters is accompanying Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt into the jungles of East Africa, A Nubian ' Lion Hunt By BARON HEINRICH ALBERT Baron Hcnrich Albert, the Austrian-Swiss adventurer, has hunted game in every part of the world. He has an estate which provides him with an income of $5,000 per year, and for the past IS years, that is since his majority, he has traveled over the globe facing dangerous animals and laying them low. It is not often that a man is found who has hunted puma, grizzly, moose, lion, tiger, elephant, wolf, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, leopard, oceolot, etc. In these especially written writ-ten papers he has narrated for this series some of his most stirring encounters in the territory through which Ex-President Roosevelt will hunt. ? tep m mm JT WOULD be absurd after negotiating nego-tiating tho dangers of a passage of the Upper Nile out of season and after traversing Bcveral hundreds of miles of country In the hands of rebellious tribesmen, to come to a mortal end under the paws of a Nubian lion. It -would be the Irony of fate, but that Is what nearly happened to me some years ago. With perils Innumerable behind us tho two white men of the party, one a gold-seeker the other a pure adventurer of the type of Tamer, nearly came to an end. We frequently left the river and navigable tributaries which we were working out 6lowly, to explore the ravines ra-vines for high bars, never taking with us more than four bearers, though at hidden by the clumps of brush through which we had been working and he did not see us. Slowly and majestically majestic-ally he surveyed the little plain then, thrusting out his ponderous Jaw uttered ut-tered a roar that went thundering down the reaches of moonlit silence. It was with difficulty that a could restrain re-strain Drayton from risking a shot', from where wo stood. The lion held his pose and ducking under cover of ' the brush and treading softly on the sand we hurried forward to the first ridge of rocks. To pass these, we must attract his notice to a certainty, so Drayton dropped on one knee while with every nerve tingling and my eyes and ears aslrain to catch any sign of his mate, who might be just beyond the ridge for all we knew, I waited for dom one; but she was dead, to all intents in-tents and purposes, and doubtless was not In need of my Becond ball. Her skin was simply of no value, and could only have been an eyesore, so I did not bother to take It off, only keeping her skull, and returned to the wngon to rate my heedless driver soundly. Awakened by the Roar of a Lion. My theory was that a lioness would probably not be altogether solitary, as is sometimes the case with animals of tho malo sex. Acting on this hypothesis, hypoth-esis, I determined to cast around and see If I could not make out further signs of lions. I did not need meat. There was plenty for some time, and the additional excitement attached to hunting such game as I was after bad a great fascination. It was no use my talking to Dob, and the other boy would probably have fled at the first sight of a lion, bo I started off myself and tramped about until I was pretty well exhausted, without finding any further indications of "Isilouan." Much disgusted, I returned to camp, pleased that I had not decided to inspan and trek farther, without satisfying myself my-self that I had not passed a lion by; for I meant moving as soon ns ever the moon was old enough to guide us at all. That evening I whiled away the time while daylight lasted In cleaning the skull of the lioness and entering up my diary for the last week or 60. My clothing also sadly needed patching patch-ing up after the wait-a-bit thorn3 0f tho day before. Then I turned in early and was Boon in -the realm o drea-Ti- much more difficult to dispenso with him than where I then was, with pretty well of cover. A couple of miles down the river I found where tho Hons had been drinking. There were several of them three, anyway, as I could distinguish dis-tinguish from the pug marks two full-grown full-grown ones and a cub, or cubs. This discovery caused me to reflect a bit as to the wisdom of proceeding single-handed. However, I must either givo up the idea of the hunt altogether, or tackle them myself; for I had no confidence in tho boys at such work, and I would much rather bo without them than with them. Yet I felt It was a risky undertaking and recollections of a previous encounter in which I had been knocked senseless by a lion in a death charge flitted through my brain. If I had only had a dog I should not have thought an thing of it, but my doubts were speedily dismissed and I stepped briskly forward. A lion dies a lot easier than a grizzly bear or a jaguar, as I had proved, and even a deer with a bullet through its heart will go farther before It succumbs. Of tho tiger I cannot speak, but the leopard and the jaguar, as also the puma, or mountain lion, partake more of the "cat" tenacity of life than docs the Hon of South Africa. Tracking on High Ground. The spoor led away towards some higher ground, intertwined with a tangled tan-gled growth of creepers, and which locked Just like the kind of harbor my game would be likely to lake refuge In. I -even-thought I"- could-discern thought that he had permitted me to encroach far enough on to his domain, aud raised himself on his forequarters, the tip of his tall twitching In a manner man-ner which I knew meant mischief should I wound him. If he moed away I might not get a belter chance, though I wished tho distance had been less; but on such occasions as these it does not do to hesitate long, so I took aim at his shoulder, which presented a fair mark, and as I fired he fell over with a roar which was answered some little way off, doubtless by his mate. I speedily got another cartridge in, and. as he lay writhing, I ran down the bank and up towards him. Ho recovered re-covered a little as I got nearer, cover-lng cover-lng hlni all' 3e "while; and mad -a ping, after I had stretched him out. and his length, from snout end to tip of tail, was a little over ten feet I had no time then to see farther to him, but set about searching for tho other lions, which were still In the underbrush adjoining. But though I boat almost eery yard, as I thought, of cover, I could not come across them, thy lay so close. Had they crossed tho open, I could not very well have missed seeing them, as there was quite a .distance of bare veldt all around the cover I was hunting hunt-ing through. I was just persuading myself that they must have sneaked away, when a cuh, about tho size of a Newfoundland Newfound-land dog", jumped out of a thick-patch HAD had very little 6leep V w I Prow',nP around and roar-I roar-I lng of lions, attracted by ij"""" the offal of a giraffe 15f I which I had shot the pre-I pre-I 4fi W I v'ous afternoon, and had ta &xl na' dragged bodily tip to .p fi the wagon. The night was. I JJJL however, so dark that I Sgp B could not get a view, and, IbmJ although I once thought I could make out the form of a lioness in the gloom, I concluded it was not best to Are, as, in the event of my only wounding her, she would have had much In her favor should she have attacked us In such darkness. I was not sorry when day broke, for the oxen and horses were very uneasy; but the skerra was good, having been strengthened strength-ened a couple of days before, not that a Hon, having once made up his mind to attack, would bo kept out by such means. However, nothing occurred further than the roaring and, after a hurried breakfast of coffee and giraffe steak, I and Bob, one of tho black boys, took up the spoor of the lion, which was plain enough about and around the camp. All wo bad left of the giraffe was reprenentcd by a few splinters of bones which the hyenas had polished after the Hon had gorged himself. For some distance along tho river bank the country was pretty well wooded, whilst away to tho north stretched the Kalahari, dotted here and there with scant timber clumps, but otherwise a vast sea. of sand, I did not take my horse, as he was a bit stiff from the tumble of the day before; he had also somewhat renewed his lameness, which was scarcely to be wondered at, considering consid-ering the country I had ben galoping blm over. The lion had made direct for a thick patch of thorns and had evidently laid up there. I had no dog. My last had been so injured by a Koodoo Koo-doo bull, which had litorally disemboweled disembow-eled him, that I had been compelled to shoot him. This was a greater loss to mo than I can express, for a good terrier ter-rier is simply invaluable. On the Track of a Lioness. The brush was so thick that it was next to impossible to get through it, and therefore, as it was clear around, and there was no fear of making a conflagration, con-flagration, I set fire to It as the best apparent means of ousting our game. Telling Bob, my Kafir driver, to keep close behind me, I went a little fur-ther, fur-ther, round the cover and w as just In time to see a lioness break away, but bo far off that I did not fire, preferring to let her go, in hopes of getting a more favorablo chance for a shot. By this time the blaze had got so powerful that we, too, were glad to get away from It; 140 degrees, or thereabouts, was sufficient of itself as a temperature, tempera-ture, without additional warmth. The HonesB made straight for another an-other bit of brush, whither - wo went after her, and, though the thorns were quite thick enough, I decided to follow her In. My boy did not relish accompanying accom-panying me, nor could I exactly blame him; for, though a fair hunter and a brave enough lad In ordinary, ho did ret like Hons, his father having been killed and hla brother badly mauled by one. It was rather difficult keeping her spoor, but after Rome trouble and considerable wear and tear, I espied her lying on a bare spot, watching mo intently. Her head was resting bo-tween bo-tween her paws and, as quickly as pos-Blhlo, pos-Blhlo, I fired between her eyes, and could have sworn I planted the bullet there, fir she was not above thirty pacf-s from me. Turning to take my Fpare carbine from Bob, I found that he had vanished. But tho lioness never ttlrred, and I was hurriedly reloading when she suddenly Jumped up and dashed further Into the thicket Unparliamentary language relieves tho feellngB, if nothing more; bo, after "!iavlng anathematized poor Bob, I once more plunged after the lioness, won- tlmes we were absent from the main party outfit for a fortnight, knowing it was entirely safe Jn the. care of a thin cross-eyed Arabian ex-chasseur who was a born voyageur with a tinge of Napoleon and the Devil and Uncle Tom in him. He was true as salt Arabian and the blood brother Senegal negro are two types of dark 6klnned men with whom I would as soon face danger and difficulty as with any white men that live. One night we were about to make camp when we encountered a party of women and girls bearing water jars and they told us of a village a mile further on. Before we reached the vlllago we were met by the chief and hi.'itn,dua uas jwho. begged us to . make a stay with them as they were seriously seri-ously troubled with Hons. Two of the chief s horses and two of his wives had been killed among: the losses which the village had Buffered and the three muskets in his army were of no avail especially as none of the officers of-ficers in command could be induced to get near enough to the bold beasts to risk a shot. The Nubian lion is a different beast from his South African and Asian brother. He Is taller, gaunter, with black in his mane and a certain philosophical philo-sophical calm about his desperate deeds. There is nothing throaty about his roar and it is pure rumbling thunder. He always reminds me of Kipling's "bluish silent beast that came around a corner and fell to work." About the second hour of darkness the cattle in the village became very restless. ' Tho wind was from the south and as the half full moon was so bright that any skulking animal near the village would have been noticed, Drayton and I agreed that tho Hon was in a little coppe of rocks about a half mile up the wind. We had not had time before dark to examine any of the old spoor and knowing merely that there was at least a lioness with cubs among the lot, we set out instead in-stead of waiting until they approached the stream. Drayton carried a special 50.50 Winchester and I a Parker ten-gauge, ten-gauge, which I had loaded with special shells of dense powder and buckshot set in .wax. This is a trick I learned Bhootlng grizzlies. The effectiveness at short range, and the certainty In tho darkness are very desirable. With an absolutely reliable arm and a-carefully prepared shell one is comparl-tlvely comparl-tlvely safe. ' When within 50 yards of the koppe a splendid animal form rose out of tho rockB and stood facing un his fore paws on a hugo boulder. Wo were Drayton's shot. He chose the chest and the crash of the Winchester went echoing among the rocks. The magnificent mag-nificent beast leaped ten feet in tho air, then came rolling, tumbling, clawing claw-ing down our 6lde of the koppe directly di-rectly toward us. His wounded roar was answered from other directions. There were two other Hons on the other side of the koppe and one in the rocks and brush not 20 yards from us to the right. But we had not time to think of them. The wounded Hon got to his feet with Incredible energy and quickness. As he leaped, with another roar I poured both barrels of my Parker into his body. That was enough. He landed in convulsions and. it was . fortunate that be had -enough. There was a crash in the brush to tho right and bounding into the moonlight giving terrible voice, came his mato. She stopped as she caught sight of us. Never have I broken and loaded a gun more quickly. Drayton had pumped in another shell and without pausing to more than swing on his knee and cover, he let drive and missed, barely raking her shoulder. She bit hastily at the wound and then came for us like a thunder bolt. I meant to pull both barrels, but gave her the right She waverod a trlflo, but was on us before I could fire again. She knocked Drayton flat and his head, striking a rock, he lay senseless, while her outstretched talons tore his rifle from his hands and tumbled it clattering among the bushes. Her momentum carried her over him and her body merely brushed me. I leaped one pace to the right and swinging my piece without even bringing it to shoulder drove the bucks Into her throat. She was in the act of whirling to rush upon Drayton, Dray-ton, but now dropped In her.final agony rolling over and over on him. one blind blow from her paw9 tearing half the clothes from hla body but leaving him unhurt I did not know then but that she had crushed his " skull as she leaped, but ' ragging him aside I saw that he was merely stunned and was now coming around. The village having heard the shots and the roaring of the Hons was wild with excitement but though I callod repeatedly It was a full half hour before be-fore a crowd of the braves would venture ven-ture out to help me with Drayton, and to take in the two uplendld prlzeH. Farther down the ridge there were t other lions roaring, but I was too shaken by our narrow escape to think of following them up that night j lly permission of Longmans, Green Co.. New York. , 4 (Copyright, 1909. by BeoJ. B. Hampton ) I 8HE KNOCKED DRAYTON FLAT. chanically brought up my weapon. Taking more careful aim this time, I J potted her right in her white cravat, , sending her la a somersault over the young ones to their no little astonishment, astonish-ment, and, what with the roaring of the lioness and tho row made by the cubs, there was quite a Bedlam. Then, appearing to realize their danger, they suddenly vanished into cover again, rather to my reUef. My lioness struggled strug-gled bo violently that It was difficult to finish her off, but at last Bhe gave me a chance to put her out of her misery by a bullet through her brain. As soon a she lay still I seated my-sell my-sell upon her and waited for the reappearance reap-pearance of the cubs, but, although I stayed until the sun had got very low, I never saw anything more of either of them. I therefore whipped off her hide, and rolling it up returned to the Hon, and served him likewise, getting through with the job before due. The hyenas could now worry at the car-casses. car-casses. though I hoped I might find the skulls in the morning. Making my two skins into a bundle, though an unwieldy one. I carried it all right back to the wagon. By permission of Loncra". Greii A Ca, New York. (Copyright, 1W, by BenJ. B. Hampton-i T ; . . . pen, and I believe she would have gone quietly away and taken her cubs with her, if I had not Interfered. The tenets ventilated by a certain explorer ex-plorer of prominence, who evidently considers It a heinous crime to kill Hons and similar gentle, useful creatures, crea-tures, had not then come to my knowl edge, not that they would have influenced influ-enced mo a bit, if such had been the case, and her rich, tawny skin was sufficient temptation for me; bo I aimed at her throat which presents a much easier and safer mark than that of the lion, with its matted and tangled tan-gled mane, sufficient at times to offer considerable Impediment to a bullet She must have raised h'er head as I fired, for my ball passed harmlessly by; fortunately, too, for me, missing the youngster Immediately behind her, or a pretty hullabaloo might hare been the result All the same, I was in no enviable position, with my carbine car-bine empty, in close proximity to these three cats. I followed the old adage of keeping my eye intently fixed on that of tho lioness; whether that had anything to do with her refraining from charging I will not pretend. to 6ay, but she did remain still whilst I mechanically reloaded and a me- derlng how our next meeting would come off. There was plenty of blood, Just where her head had lain, and also enough to guide mo easily on tho tracks she had taken. Indeed, before I was aware of it. I was almost on top of her. Stepping 6teadlly back she lay directly from me I drew another bead between her ears at the base of her skull, and let fly. This time there could be no doubt as to Its being ef fective, for. as I stood, I could see where the bullet bored right into her brain. Tho lioness never bo much 33 moved, eo I stepped up and examined her. My first bullet had struck her too low beneath tho eyes to reach her brain. It had torn through the cartilage cartil-age of the nose and down her throat, momentarily stunning and so stupify-lay stupify-lay her that her last -;sh was a r.m- land, to be awakened by tho unmistak-able unmistak-able roar of a Hon. I had been right after all. but only felt half pleased at being disturbed. Thero was nothing for it but to mount guard again, and another broken night's rest was the consequence. Still tho animals did not seem to approach any nearer. By the sound they were evidently close by the water. As coon as the morning f.nack was over I set the boys to work to get everything in readiness for Inspannlng. and started off onco again, this time keeping clo::e a!on the bunk of tho river a3 the most likely way of coming acros3 the spoor of tho Hon. I still thought it rriulem to rest my horse, as when v.o net farther far-ther op1 nto t) vrl.lt ' fhouK' Kt'l It some moving objects there. Anyway I followed the spoor rlsht to , where I had calculated I Bhould find recent traces of tho lions if they had not left the vicinity, and suddenly Ip the sun, at full length among the rocky boulders, boul-ders, I came across one. As I approached, ap-proached, ho lazily raited his head and looked at m at the tame time utter-ins utter-ins a low prowl, as it annoyed at my Intrusion. As he did not sut'.n Inclined In-clined to'movo f'TTher. and mupt. have do?ccr.d'"'d and r.-Ud the p'ide of tha little kloof wLIch InUrveneJ between us befcru h.' ciuld reach mo, though 1 did not antici'iute lAs, ! walked ou to .vurcZ 3 Mm. till I rcM to uy ijo of tli-s ravine, ,L.o:it thirty paces fro.ji bio;, lit- tirj-.v B"y'n-..i-! rs if Ik- bad' i futile attempt to charge me. As he did so, I gave him another shot in the chest, dropping hl:n, though he was up again directly and glaring at mo viciously. Again his roars were answered, an-swered, but I could eeo no slyns of any other Hons; in fact. I dared not take my eyes mora than an inttant off the one I had in hand. I still kept moving steadily up to him. and, bavins bav-ins got as near p I thought advisable, advis-able, just as he seemed about to make another effort to come .it mo, I got a third bullot into him. this time catch-liirj catch-liirj him ri;;ht in tho car and flnlflhiu? biro. He was a fully-grown you err male, with a pretty fair nm,' but ! nothing Uke so fine as ethers' I have ' 7?ir t with. I treasure I him by step- pen, and I believe she would have and stood gazing steadily at me. I did not dare to empty my barrel at it, for I felt that Its mother was near by. In a minute or bo another cub followed the first and also took a good look at my doubtless unexpected person; and whilst my ideas were somewhat confused as to the really best course to pursue, a fine old lioness marched grandly out and stationed herself bcsldo her progeny; at the same tliie fixing me in anything but a pleasant manner with her penetrating orba cf almost Indescribable green. Getting a Lioness with Her Cubs. I don't think she meant charging, however; one can tell intuitively pretty pret-ty correctly when this la coing to hap- |