A Nighty Hunter

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 259, 28 April 1888, Page 4

A Nighty Hunter

1 r i- «i well know n axiom aiming the haid\ i\oi\ hunleis ot .Southern Airien that tl>t awiaoe lite ot (he pio'essiouai < lephant huiilei has no lonyei duration than hum ii\e t<> s t >\ en \eai-, the iisl\s imi heiiiL: fv in.iii\ ami \aiiou- Accidents ti tun wounded elephants, the highthil L'tiiuie to he undeijione, tor elephant- when al. nmed, will tiequenth t lavel toi t\ -ei«>ht horn- on end. and ha\e to It tin teaMiiyh "spooled 'ol lost — te\eis. danueifrom nalne treachen : (,he<e aie hut m-lame- oMlu peuK which Mnioimd Miu< dtin^eious >c! hi^cinatini; etdlius. 1 . Mot-t ot the elepliant- >>outh ot the Zambezi li,i\l now letieated to iheieuion of the T*>etse ll\. wheie tlie} can only he pur-ued on loot, a tact that <tdd^ \a&tly toapui.-uit suliieient \\ e\hau-tin^ e\en on hoi-ebaeU. Of all South Atiican Nimrodf, Mr F. C. Selou-, the author of 'A ilunterV Wandei in^.- in Southern Atrica. i* the ilmjoi. Though still but a younu man, he ha-> fiuisticd the lia/ai clous bii.-inet>«- of ivoii, hunting thc^e .sixteen yeai* pae-t tdnuiht without interruption. In that time he has- slam more elephants p:obably than any other Englishman, whether ot the present or ot past generations. He has vseen the mi^'ht\ pachyderms driven fiom one fasuiess to another, until now. -,outh ot the Zambesi, it is a ditlieult matter to i-ii-counter them oach in the remotest [)>nt ot Mashonaland or the Mubabo liuntiug \eldt. During his last hunting trip, although no fewer than 12 lions. 51 elands, 25 bnlUloes, besides sable antolopes, and other odds ami ends tell to t lit* rifles of himself and hasfriends, only two elephants were lidi low. But for the present Mr Selons by no means intends to throw up the game, lie is e\ en now preparing for a great expedition tohesh fields and pastures beyond the Zambesi in a hunting 'veldt' \irgin to European and Dutch hunters. Taking with him a tew ot his old and tried nathe attendant-., he is on his way once more to the far Zambesi, a\ Inch he will cross westward ot the Vietoiia Kails at the junction of that river with the Chobc. His ox waggons aie to be lloated across the great rivet, a feat never betore attempted or even dreamed of.