HLI Chronicle 1907 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers

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100 HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CHRONICLE. earnest soon. It is an exciting moment! Here she comes with a "whouf whouf " straight at me. I let her have it thirty yards oft, but the grass is somewhat thick, and I knew I had missed! She comes on almost hidden by the grass, and then ~uddenly bursts straight forward! Is she going to charge ~ She thinks better of it, and swerves -full gallop-past our right. Just as she clears the line I give her the second barrel of the Paradox. Habet! I feel it-though she at ~nce. disappears into a thick jungle, and all IS sIlent and still. Lord! perhaps I've missed he.r ! We surround the high grass and close Ill, and there she is, all right, lying on her side-stone dead, with a bullet hole showing clearly just behind the shoulder. Out come the cameras-even a tiger's death is not sacred to them-and then she is measured -8 feet 5 inches-a good average tigress.' And so to lunch. Is it fancy alone that makes that drink taste like nectar to-day 1 I think not. . . , Another day we killed three buftalo-one,a cow, with a grand head, of 10 feet 10 inchesand fine sport they gave as they charged the line; but the elephants are staunch, and you might as well charge a house as a big elephant, and no harm was done. ". The total bag was six tigers, seven leopards, seven black b~ar, four buftalo, three stags (bara, singh, and sambur), besides pig, partridges, peafowl, florican, &c.-fine sport, the whole rendered doubly enjoyable by tho extreme kindness and hospitality of our host and hostess and all their family. Northern Nigeria, West Africa. IT is almost worth while going to West Africa solely for the pleasure of getting away from it, if you happen to be lucky enough to do so, and escape the various fevers, etc., that most white men have at some time or other. One's first view of West Africa is by no means cheery -merely a yellow, sandy coast line, with a fringe of green above and the white breakers below. It is more or less interesting calling at various ports, such as Sierra Leone, Lagos, etc., where the steamers anchor a mile or two oft the coast and small row-boats come out to take passengers and their luggage ashore. It is more interesting if it is a bit r9J,lgh and you don't happen to be going oft yourself, for sometimes they make a bad shot, and the luggage is dropped into the sea instead of into the small boat. Then curious passengers come on board at the coast towns, and the steerage decks are packed with black men, women, and children, to say' nothing of goats, sheep, poultry, and sometimes a horse. At last you get to Burutu, a place on one of the mouths of the Niger, consisting of a post office, store, and one 'or two white men's houses, but chiefly of swamps, and smells, and heat. You get the river steamer there, and start up the Niger for Northern Nigeria.· The scenery is more or less the same for a few days-namely, mangrove swamps, thick entangled forest, and palm trees, and here and t~erea native village, looking picturesque w~th mud huts, grass roofs, etc .. The natives in their dug-out canoes make for the bank as fast as they can paddle when they see the steamer, as they stand a good chance of getting swamped. On nearly every sandbank one sees a crocodile, and now and then the head of a hippo. appears on the oilyloo~ing surface of the river, then slowly sinks agam. Eventually one arrives at Barijuko, on .the river Kaduna, a tributary of the Niger, whlCh one has to traverse in a canoe and on which a certain number of duck a~d geese can be shot, if one is carefuL Barijuko is at one end of the 22 miles of railway with which Northern Nigeria is blessed. You get into a first-class carriage resembling a prehistoric tram-car, and with luck you arrive at Zungeru, the capital of Northern Nigeria, about three hours later. Zungeru is more or less civilised and has a tennis court, post office, store, and a Government House, to say nothing of various white men's bungalows. I arrived there in the1 afternoon, and the first thing I saw was nearly all the white men going to the funeral
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