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Show African HuntingFrave! 5 Warfare By Dr. V. J. Ansorge, M. A., LL. D., M. R. G. S., L. R. CP. I erected by his comrades In arms to the memory of tho deceased, slain by t tic Meant. One of these two Frenchmen French-men has died since;, he ru?f:red from fever on I1I9 way down the Congo; broken in health he rc.-.ctaed Paris, and died. I have met Wandcrobo D:en near Nnivasha, bnt the first Anderobo woman I saw at the Ravine, she was dresscM. In mcnlcej' skin9. The Wan-diTobw Wan-diTobw are a race of elephant-hunters. Those I saw resembled Hi-? Ma:;al in dross ami ornament-. Th" K'doia mountain rnne Is Inhabited by a race called tho Kainasla. Where cara.nne used to cross formerly, form-erly, tho ravine h.'is steep sides, and deep down at the bottom there is n mountain stream which, when swollen by the heavy rains, may become a tierce torrent but In tho dry season i3 only ankle-deep. Formerly caravan cara-van lost n day in crossing the ravine. Hy the present caravan route, a few hundred yards higher up the river, caravans can pass without any difli-c difli-c 11 If v whatever. Tho former ravine crossing is, however, worth a lslt. Pretty ferns, amongst them iho maid-on maid-on hair, grow here in wild profusion. Mr. James Martin, the officer In charge of the Ravine station, is veteran vet-eran traveler, having done a score of Journeys, though not always right up to Kampala. Ho was the first of the bachelor official.- who pot murriod, and his example has been followed by others from storekeeper to commissioner. commis-sioner. Since English Mission ladles by their presence demonstrated that Uganda suited European ladies, there has been quite a matrimonial epidemic. epi-demic. A Memorable Bath From the Ravine the traveler next passes on to the cold and wind-swept Man escarpment, over 9,000 feet above sea-level. Sometimes it Is very cold here. I have seen hoar-frost on the ground and a thin coating of Ice oa the ed?e .of shallow springs. On my fourth Journey It was so cold during the night, thut niy-boy In the early morning found to his astcnlsliment, the water In the pall frozen Into a that It might be dcnqerouB for any ether white runn to try, but not for him. cs he had already orcc visited the country, and although It waa only at a frontier village, that ho had made blood-brotherhood with a chief. The porters whom he selected were picked men, some of the best of the porters, with whom I had only a short while previously arrived from the coast. I.llllo did I reckon." when v,o shook hands and said good-bye, that it was the last 1 should see of him, and that he was : ' 'her about to meet with a violent r'-o'.h The r.vrxt news we heard, wo 3 brought bv a few survivors of his caravan, covered with ghastly wounds which I had to IreiU According to them. West was received with apparent appar-ent friendship by his so-called blood-brother. blood-brother. He then sent off some of his men to the Furrounding villages to purchase various tusks of Ivory said to be for sale. Wert fell so secure, that he tied up all his rifles Inside his tent. Without any provocation on bis part, and simply prompted by lust of blood and plunder, the treacherous I natives one night fell upon him and his caravan and massacred all but a very few. Poor West! He was down with illness at the time, and they thrust their spears through tbo tent and speared him where he lay on his bed. The black woman who had been Wests faithful and Intelligent helpmate help-mate for many .1 long Er was speared by his side. The oarages carried car-ried off everything, but the naked bodies bod-ies of the slaughtered were left to be devoured by by.ienas. A curious sequel to this story 1 heard many months afterwards. It was on ray return Journey to the coast. I was a3lied, by one of the officials 1 met, to take along with me to the coast a man .who professed to have belonged to the lato Mr. West's caravan cara-van and who said he had only now succeeded In making his escape from the hands of the Wanandl. Return of Poor Bom-bom When I saw tho man, I at once recognized him as "Born-bom," one of my Wanamwezl porters who had ac- ened thorn with death. Rom-bom tells me that If it had not been for the two old men iiitcrcedlng with tho young warriors, he and hie Swahlll compan Ion would have been massacred on the spot. Hut one of the old ineu claimed film as a slave, and the other claimed the Swahlli. They now returned to the village. Here a pool of blood was pointed out as the spot where the third man they had left at the village was killed during dur-ing their absence Near it there were a few other drops of blood, said to be from a chicken their companion was Just killing for diuner, . when the treacherous murderers stabbed him to death from behind Horn bom thought he had a chance of escaping, w hen no one was watching; but thc.young warriors war-riors were on the. look-out, and Itom-bom Itom-bom lied back to the old nfnn's hut, where the murderers were kept with difficulty from following and spearing him. , Bom-bom Regains His Freedom Hom-bom and the Swahlli now resigned re-signed themselves to their condition of slavery They lived separated, as their owners did rot belong to the same household The old man who owned tho Swahili decided one day to sell him. and for this purpose took aim to another village; but such a wretched sum was . offered for the slave, that no sale was effected. .The Swahlli was a very merry fellow who submitted to his slavery with the greatest equanimity. The old man's daughter happened to-be a widow with some children, and the Swahili slne so gained her affections that she mar rled him. He was now regarded no longer as a slave, but as an honoured Bon-ln-lmv. Horn bom was not as lucky as his companion. He was of n different temperament, tem-perament, and submitted with a bad grace to his captivity and slavery. Nor did he take at all kindly to being sont to cultivate the field In company with women. - Nor did say native lady fall In love with him and desire him for a husband. In desperation he determined de-termined to escape, and his master apparently helped him off; but not for freedom, and hla wife determined to help him and to accompany hlrn, leaving her children In the meantime in the care of the old grandfather. Owing to her knowledge of the country, coun-try, this devoted wife got the Swahlll safely out of it Hoth lived afterwards for a while In a Kavirondo village, and then the wife decided to return to her father village to fetch her children chil-dren to the new home and probably to bring her old father as well. Born-bom finding that the Swahlll had managed to escape, decided to make another effort. He succeeded; and this Is how ho came to accompany me to the coast. Expedition Prepares to Attack The massacre by the Wakltosh, fol lowed by the disaster which overtook Mr. West In N'andl, had also rendered tho natives of Kabras hostile. A message mes-sage reached us at Mumia's that the natives, having found out that white men were mortal (Mr, West was speared and killed In a treacherous night attack) had determined to prevent pre-vent In future any white man from passing through their country. It show R what curious notions some of these savages had hitherto held with regard to white men. The whole district now became insecure, in-secure, jsnd the Europeans up-country were threatened with being cut off from all communication with, the coast. This efficiently explains the absolute necessity of the punitive expedition, unless tho government were prepared to abandon all the Europeans up-country and to surrender tho country to the tender mercies of the blood thirsty savages. When the expedition approached tho first hostile village, we saw numbers of armed natives waiting outside, their gates as If to give us battle; but as wo drew nearer, they retired within their walla and barricaded the gates. The enemy had a few men armed with muzzle-loaders. When tho fight began, one of our Wc-janda frlendlles near me had his arm shattered by a bulleL " I amputated it there and then on the open field. Hut when the bullets bul-lets continued whizzing and singing rUUX&a NEVER, never leave j anything In reach Iff ij of a hungry hyena. Jji , rot even saddle or H 3 hame?s mu?t bo rAr.w.r Tjm.vS left at the mercy of Kj f55ifcJ5'S3?31 hungry brutes. k Vyi-dr H I have seen but two Ufjlia specimens of hyaena, hy-aena, the spotted and Ihe brown. The one I got liy setting set-ting a trap gun. . The trap is easily ct. Ti- the bait over the muzzle of the rl!! l'se in preference a piece of offal, for instance a bit of highly odoriferous odor-iferous goatskin. Suspend or fasten 'he r 1 tic? horizontally at such a height from the ground, that the hyaena con conveniently grab the bait. Attention r.vjst b'- paid to i-xpcs? the bait in such a way, that the hyaena cannot sclxe It from the side, but has to approach ap-proach the front of the muzzle. lince the trigger ut full cock and tie It by a bit of string to the tree or bush behind be-hind It; now pull the muzzle forward, and. If the I rap Is In good working order, or-der, the trigger will at once respond ar.d rtrlke. If the trap works satisfactorily, satis-factorily, the rifle may now be loaded and left in situ. Any prowling hyaena Is sure to be attracted and to immolate immo-late Itself; the bullet is almost certain to blow Its brains out. In a wilderness wilder-ness tho only precaution necessary I3 to warn every one of the caravan, and to see that the gun points awaj fro:n the camp. Hyaenas seem to be attacked by the same sort of tick which Is a parasite of ihinos " ' At Sakha's village in Kavirondo n donkey was so badly mauled by u hyaena hy-aena that It died Most travellers take some goats or sheep along with their caravan In the event of falling to fjoot game or to buy meat from the natives. The animr.ls should be carefully care-fully penned up at night and surrounded sur-rounded with a strong protecting thorn-fence, called "bona" by the Sv.a-Llllcfl. Sv.a-Llllcfl. On my second Journey, we had bought Fonic sheep and, goats at Ki-ku Ki-ku 11, In anticipation of continuing our march next morning. Tbo animals were placed for the night In the customary cus-tomary penfold, outside of the fort. Next morning we found that hyaenas h;id carrb-d off two of the sheep, badly lacerated a third which we had to kill on tho spot, and wounded a fourth. One such lesson serves a lifetime, not to trust to any enclosure offering a single weak point to a possible nocturnal noc-turnal visit from theso marauders. Hostilities Begin In the Utter part of 10." a large caravan of V.'aklkuyu and Swahllies was returning from the Ravine to Fort Smith; it reached the Kedong valley ai:d came across rorae Masai kraals. How the subsequent bloodshed arose la not exactly koown, as only a few rurvlvois managed to escape. According Accord-ing to one story, the Swahllies behaved be-haved aggressively toward the Masai and. relying on their superior numbers, num-bers, tried to levy blackmail. The Mrsai resented It, and in a moment a Jlcrce carnage was going on. Oxer V;0 of the unfortunate Wakikuytt and Cwahilies were slaughtered; for the Iu?t of blnod onc roused, Innocent and rullty were Indiscriminately butchered. The news of the disaster was brought to Fort Smith, and was immediately followed by another tragedy; for a trader. Mr. Dirk, was ou his way up-country. A Frcnrh scientific mission mis-sion cIko was on its way to Uganda; arriving at the Fort, two of their number, num-ber, military men, volunteered to recall re-call Dick. They found him, but in-ste;id in-ste;id of persuading him to return with them to the security of the Fort, ho persuaded them to accompany him across the Kedorg. What were the j motives which prompted the trader, no I one will ever know. According to some, he wanted to pay out the Masai for the horrible and wholesale butchery butch-ery they had Just perpetrated; according ac-cording to others, he thought It a good pretext for capturing their valuable herds. He did seize a lot of cattle, for several hundred head were brought In by the Frenchmen to the ForL Death of Mr. Dick I met these gentlemen a few weck9 later in Uganda and, as I knew Dick personally, gathered from them some particulars of the fight. They told me that Dick fought most fearlessly and bravely and, being an excellent shot, dropped one Masai after another. He went to pick up the shield and spear of a Massl be had Jurt slain, when the euemy made a desperate rush, and at a critical moment Dick's rifle Jammed. He turned round to his men to get another, when a Mas.il rushed forward and speared him through the hack, killing him on the spot. The Frenchmen killed Dick's assailant, but fighting against overwhelming odds, thy were compelled to retreat to the Fort. In a couple of dya they returned re-turned to tho scene of the light in order to bttry Dick. They found the body atrlpped naked, aud burled It, on tbo Kedong ercarpmenL They orected a plain wooden eros over the gave, which 1 saw still Handing when I Journeyed that way. Th Inscription simply atates that thu cross was Hsu of it. Tho village was plundered and burnt. There was very littlo for our savage alles to loot a few shields and spears and some KavlronUo drums, harps and stools. A Masai on the warpath Is ahorrld , A Masai on the warpath Is a horrid his waist he wears a broad feat her scabbard. Very often he has also a knobkerry. usually of some hard wood, I but I have one In my possession j carved out of a rhino horn. In his left Ii2nd he carries a large oval shield, ' and In his right hand a spear. To one or both of his ankles he ties a peculiar ornament made of feathers, and on his head he wears a ' similar arrangement of black ostrich feathers fastened to a leather band which passes round the forehead and occiput. The Masai sword has a straight leather-covered hilt The blade Is narrow, nar-row, but grad tally gels broader tch wards the end, where it suddenly terminates term-inates in a point. The weapon answers an-swers Its purpose of slashing rather than of piercing an enemy. The shields are made of bullock-hide and are orna mented with various patterns In white, red and black. The spear is very handsome, though somewhat" peculiar. The long double edged blade i3 rather narrow,- and tapers to' a point. To poise this unwieldy mass of .nietul, the wooden shaft Is almost entirely covered cov-ered about the middle, w here the hand grasps tho spear. Horrible Cruelty of Masai Two of these fierce warriors bad darted In pursuit of two naked urchins who, turning round and finding themselves them-selves hard pressed, stopped running and held out entreating hands to their pursuers Tho Masai were jerking their spears horizontally with the peculiar pe-culiar thrusting movement used in striking a victim. Friends and foes stopped fighting to watch this sudden side-act. as Trojans and Greeks may have paused to watch Achilles pursuing pursu-ing H3Ctor rouud the walls of Troy. One of the Masai did not strike bis captive, but. passing shield and spear to one hand, he grasped the little boy with the other, hoisted him on to his Bhoulder, and darted back to our ranks amidst the loud laughter of our savage allies But tho other villain . poised his spear and struck the poor trembling tremb-ling child full In the chest. As the boy fell backwards In the grass, the Masai gave one more lunge with hla spear and then darted back to where our frlendlles stood; and the battle Instantly raged with greater fury than before. It all happened within a few seconds, and so quickly that I had no time to put a bullet through the murderer, though an intense desire to do bo now possessed me. I bad already noticed some barbarities barbari-ties perpetrated on dead bodies at the first village we captured, for the human hu-man wolves which accompany every army had cut off a hand here and there, in order more quickly to possess themselves of the coveted Iron bracelets. brace-lets. It was barefaced murder, this slaying of the little urchin in the sight of friend and foe. Of course it was Impossible to discover afterwards after-wards the villain among the many thousands who flocked like vultures to the Fjaughter. In the relentless pursuit of the enemy these savage allies rendered ren-dered considerable assistance to the government. Among the slain In the stronghold were found the principal hostile leaders: and the enemy thereafter there-after no longer made a stand. As we advamed. they evacuated their villages vil-lages and fled beforo us. r ' Looted Native Village. I had rather a curious experience on my first Journey. I was asked to accompany a fleet of about 20 of these boats from Slo Bay (In Kavirondo) to Luba's (in I.'soga); my companion was to Join me later on. We rowed almost without a. break from early, dawn to i p. m . then the Wasoga boatmen gave me to understand by signs, for theie was not a soul present who could speak to them, that they haJ done enough work for the day one1 would like to land; they pointed to a pot where smoke indicated the presence pres-ence of huts HelievinR that they must know their own business best. I nodded assent. At once the boats placed themselves In a sort of line-of-battle array, and with iueredibl speed, tho boatmen shouting and yelling yell-ing like mad, we dashed towards onfc of the numerous Inlets.- Instend of the expected peaceful landing, I witnessed with surprise what looked for all the world like a bold 'attack on an enemy's country. Most of my crew rushed ashore armed with shields and spears. Some terrified terri-fied Inhabitants ran away' Into tho woods,, while my lawless mob of. boatmen boat-men pounced 011 fowls and chickens tore p vegetable marrows and pumpkins, pump-kins, cut down banana trees right and left to get at the fruit. Screams made me. hurry unarmed ashore. Just in tima to pave a poor old woman from having three young goats snatched from her. As soon as I had enabled her to retreat re-treat to the safe shelter of the woods I had to save a man whom the boatmen boat-men had seized and, for all I knew, were going to spear. The wretches boiled off when they saw me, and the man I bad saved ran for his life and escaped. Then some armed natives deployed out of the banana groves. At tha sight of this score of armed men, ray 400 cowardly Wasoga robbers fled to tho boats. A shower of stones was flung at us. and wounded a few. A slone about the size of my fist struck me In the pit of the stomach. Fortunately Fortu-nately it was a spent stone, or I should have been doubled up on t'i spot and would then most probably have been speared It served as hint that unarmed I should only b throwing away my life by remaining. Under cover of this shower of stones some tried to rush us with spears, when "bang!" went off some muzzle-loaders, muzzle-loaders, proving that the natives could muster a few guns. Swimming for My Life : Wbcn I turned round, I found my men had got into their boats and were vigorously paddling off. I was quite alon. I reached the lake, threw myself my-self In, and struck out for the boats. 1 am a very Indifferent swimmer, as I get too quickly exhausted. I would not have ventured upon such a performance per-formance In time of peace on any Inducement. In-ducement. It is astonishing what undreamtof un-dreamtof feats the pressure of circumstances cir-cumstances may get the most reluctant reluct-ant of us to attempt! It was my flrst swim with my clothes on. I did not relish It and I have no desire to repeat re-peat It. Not one of the boats came to my help. I only wonder I did not get drowned before I reached a boat. The crocodiles had probably, b?en scared off by the awful din. Many ot the nearer boats paddled away the quicker when I approached them. In their terror taking me for a desperate enemy wishing to board them. My boy had remained In the boat, but when he drew my rifle out of Us canvas can-vas covering, my boatmen paused, allowed al-lowed roe to reach them, and drew ma Into the boat With the boat at a pretty safe distance, dis-tance, and wilb me aboard, and now armed -with a rifle, my boatmen became be-came quite plucky again. Pointing to a solitary sentinel posted on a conspicuous con-spicuous rock, they begged me to shoot him. I felt more inclined to j shoot them for having been the ar- ' gressors. I was told afterwards, that 1 we bad landed on one of the Uvuma ' Islands, inhabited by a plucky but treacherous race which hates th Was- oga. The Uvama Islanders fall, for,' administrative purposes, under the-j Jurisdiction of tb official In charge ot ' TJsoga. (Copyrisht by BenJ. H. lJarapton.) -J HE TURNED ROUND TO HIS MEN TO GET ANOTHER, WHEN A MASAI RUSHED FORWARD AND SPEA RED HIM THROUGH THE BACK. folld lump. He had Been sleet, but never anything like this. When he came to tell me that my matutinal tub was not ready, I was only too glad of a legitimate excuse to snuggle down In the warm blankKs for a little longer; lon-ger; so I told him to put the pall near, but not too near the Cre. and to call me bgaln when the bath was ready. Leaving bleak Mau, the traveler descends des-cends to the Naudl country only opened open-ed to tramc since the last few years. Formerly the inhabitants were fierce and treacherous. A confirmation of this v.&3 the fad tragedy which befell Mr. West, an English trader, at ihe handa of the Wanandl. Dr. West Goes to His Death Th It lime I saw Mr. West alive was at Mumln's. He was then on tho point of goln to the N'andl country to buy Ivory la exchange for co.vs. "l asked Dim whether he wa3 cot afraid to venture with such a small number of men, barely 20 porters, nmng a race not ret brought urder rubjertlon and reported to bo hostile. He replied companied West's ill-starred caravan. The man, of course, knew me too, and was delighted to see mo again. He accompanied me to the coast, and, as he was In rags, for the sake of auld-lar.g-syne I rigged him out in a new-cotton new-cotton cloth. . He related to me some curious experiences. ex-periences. West bad sent him and two others to" a certain village to fetch a tusk of Ivory.- Arrived at the village, one of the threo remained In the hut axtdgDcd to thorn by the natives, na-tives, whilst tho other two were toid to accomrany. two old men to the river. There the two natives looked for an Insignificant dry tig, washed hither and thither , by the current. This twig wos a buoy, and by pulling at it they drew two magnificent tusks of Ivory, each oyer five feet in lorgih, out of tbo river. Korr.-bom and his companion were asked to carry the tusks to the village- Eucumbertd i;h. the heavy load of Ivory, they were suddeuly bet upon by young Wanandi warriors in full war-paint of red earth and grease, who deprived them at once of.lheir rifles and then threat- knowing the way out of the country, he nearly died of hunger, and. after wandering for days, he was compelled to return to tho village. Here he wa3 at once ccized by tho natives and tied hand and foot preparatory to being butchered. 71 is Swahlli friend arrived opportunely on the scene, and told the Wanar.di that he knew an Infallible charm for preventing a recaptured clave from ever succeeding In escaping. escap-ing. He professed to be willing to divulge the secret on sol-.-ran promise that Bom-bom's life should be spared In order to test the efilcaey of the charm. The natives are very super-rtltlous super-rtltlous and equally curious to hear fcbout something: supematuraL The ri'jmlse was therefore readily given. Bom-bom was set free, and a cupful of water was poured over his feet by the Sv.aUIll who dectrred this to be the magic charm. Of course It was only a trick; for if Bom-bom made a"5uc-cjssful a"5uc-cjssful escape, he ould obviously be cut of danger, charm or no charm, and the-Swahili was meditating to f-fuct f-fuct his own escape ehortly. In his heart, the Swahili yearned unpleasantly near me, 1 removed the wounded. behind the shelter of a white-ant white-ant hillock nud there attended to thorn. Then I wns called In a hurry to see a Swahlll shot down a little distance dis-tance off; on examining hint, I found he was dead. . A bullet had struck him full in the chest, and must have passed tnrough tho heart. Burning of the Fortified Village The reason why the Kavirondo have several entrances to their village, appears ap-pears to be to enable them to escape by one if overpowered at nny of the others. This happened in the present case. Several natives burst out from a gate the existence of which was unsuspected. un-suspected. They escaped, though, of course, there wa3 an immediate rush by our men towards the spot. Strict orders had been given to spare women and children; a few of the women and children, bow-ever, perished. This might happen, and probably docs happen, hap-pen, at the glege and capture of every fortified place. There were a great many wounded, and I bad a busy tlzie |