It has no walls, but the interior is
screened from the sun by palm leaves,
On a well equipped farm there are
generally three white men, one hundred
and twenty hunters ,nud attendants,
seventy camels and about fifty
goats. From these farms expeditions
comprising twenty hunters, a sufficient
number of attendants, ten camels
and about a doen goats to go out
at regular intervals in the season of
the year to hunt the beasts.
As the district between Nubia and
Abyssinia is divided into two parts by
the Setit Kivcr and on its fertile banks
lions, elephants aud hippotami arc
found living close togeter over
a comparatively small area. The
lions roam the plain, the elephants
live in the forests and thehipopotami
wallow in the Kivcr or among the
reeds on its banks, ThcAbysiuiau
hunters arc as a rule brave fellows.
It is next to impossible to capture ,
alive n full grown elephant, a lion or
a hlpopotamus, aud for this reason,
partly, the young ones are always
nought, Moreover some of the ani
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mals have to be carried bodily from
their native wilds to the farm, as they '
stubbornly lcfuse to match, and It
would not be o ea y to c.trry crown
Up IxMbt:.
When a hcaul of elephants is (Ms
covered on thcsvtmtv plains bordering
the River whre"dnrra," nkbid
of African corn, grow ah 1 1 lantlv
the hunters ride up to them. An old ,
bull, stationed some distance mvay t
from the herd, keeps watch, ami at
the slightest sign of danger gives a
signal at which the hrholc herd immediately
lorms a battle phabinx,
keeping the young ones in the rear.
The hunters 011 their horses approach
the herd and then disappear.
