Identifier: popularelectric619131chic (find matches)
Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
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hilltops it revealed a long caravan wending its way slowly out of Fort Congo, South Africa,and setting out along the route to Mombasa. At the head of the procession, which consisted of an elephant, six horses, four pack mules, four camels, a foufrox team and a retinue of servants, rode. Colonel Jackson, famous hunter of big game, accompanied by his two daughters, Alice and Ethel, and his stalwart son, Jack. It had been less than a week before;that Colonel Jackson had received the the So message from his old friend Jorgson, which read:—■ Zanzibar, Nov. 26, 1910.Dear Colonel:— I promised to notify you regarding the hunting in the interior. Advise you to go to Mombasa at once and equip, as game is plentiful. Yours old friend, Jorgson. Since the receipt of this message all had been bustle and excitement in the Colonels home, for the two girls and the son had been eager to accompany their it; Polyscope Company of Chicago. in which Miss Kathlyn Williams ,09 510 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE
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father, while he had been busy preparing his weapons, camp equipment and hunting paraphernalia. At last, however, all was ready and they were really off on the expedition. On the third day out from Fort Congo the party came upon a Kaffir village and learned that game was plentiful in the vicinity. They obtained a guide and, after going some miles farther into the jungle, made camp. The Colonel was up at dawn the following morning and before noon the trackers discovered a huge lion which was trailed to its lair and shot by the hunters. As they parted the bushes to obtain their game, Alice discovered two lion cubs playing about the body of their dead mother. Though the sympathy of each of the girls was roused by the sight of the motherless cubs, it was outweighed by their delight at the capture of the cunning little animals, which they carried back to camp with them. During the following night the roars of other lions and jungle beasts were plainly heard, and in the morning it was reported that one of the

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