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canvas fall, while several other pegs barely held 
their own and threatened every second to let 
go. At the same instant a fresh gust of wind 
could be heard coming shrieking down the 
canon, and when it struck I knew it would wreck 
both the tent and my dream of dry clothes. 
’Twas a time for quick work, not for medi¬ 
tation, and I dived out into the weather to fix 
those pegs, dressed like a hummingbird and with 
all its graceful darting motions imitated through 
force of circumstances. If any one thinks I 
didn’t work for the next five minutes, he never 
camped in the Santa Ritas with only a seven- 
foot canvas wall between him and the wild night. 
Some of those pegs were driven into the ground 
until, if they are ever pulled out again, it will 
be by a stump puller and not any little old 
winter wind. I felt good after it was over and 
I was safe inside my dry clothes, but I didn’t 
exactly feel good while driving those pegs a la 
Cupid in the midst of a deluge, half rain, half 
snow, driven by a hurricane. A shower bath is 
pleasant, but not that kind. They say there is 
good in everything, but it took me some time 
to see the good in that experience, though after 
a while I partly figured it out by reflecting how 
things would have been if I had been an hour 
later getting into camp. 
Winter away up in the mountains with no 
The Paul Rainey Collection. 
BY RALEIGH RAINES. 
The final shipment of the natural history 
collection, made by the Paul J. Rainey expedi¬ 
tion in British East Africa, numbering some 
fourteen barrels and thirteen cases, has just been 
received at the National Museum, and is being 
unpacked in the taxidermy shops. The extensive 
company but two horses, two cur pups and the 
wild things and no habitation but a small tent 
often buried in snow, is rather a lonesome time. 
But it is a good time, too, in many ways, and 
makes one see and think things that he could 
never see nor think anywhere else. Then, when 
the spring sun begins to shine, and the snow 
melts away from the foothills and is crowded 
higher and higher up the slopes, till the ranges 
rise like huge green walls with a white-frosted 
border next a blue ceiling, all the mountains’ 
lonesomeness melts away with the snow, for the 
full life of the hills is awake once more, filling 
every cliff and canon with companionship. At 
least, that’s the way the pups and I felt one 
April morning when, the trapping season over, 
we loaded our pack horse and took our wav- 
down Smith's Canon toward the lower valleys 
and civilization after a five months’ stay in the 
Upper Santa Ritas. To be sure the pups didn’t 
tell me what they thought, but judging by that 
familiar, beaming, satisfied expression in their 
eyes, I felt sure they would be disappointed when 
they found they were being taken away from 
the scene of our mutual exploits, and that noth¬ 
ing would console them for their forced return 
to the tame confines of civilization, but the pros¬ 
pect of unlimited Sunday newspapers to demolish 
without danger of capital punishment. 
collection is of immense size, including 4,000 
specimens, more than 700 of which are those 
of large game. Edmund Heller, of the National 
Museum, was the guest of Mr. Rainey on his 
African hunting trip, and accompanied the ex¬ 
pedition for the purpose of preserving the ani¬ 
mals. Mr. Rainey has generously donated the 
entire collection to the Smithsonian Institution 
and the National Museum. While Mr. Heller 
had charge of the preservation of mammals in 
general, he paid especial attention to the collec¬ 
tion of carnivores and ungalates. In the collec¬ 
tion are twenty-four new species of rodents, in 
which it appears Africa abounds. During the 
trip Mr. Rainey extended to Mr. Heller every 
opportunity to make a complete survey of the 
mammals, which he successfully accomplished, 
assisted by thirty trained native skinners and 
porters who accompanied the safari. 
Among the material obtained is the famous 
series of lions captured by Mr. Rainey’s cele¬ 
brated American bearhounds as described in his 
lectures. The idea of hunting lions with bear- 
hounds appears to have been original with Mr. 
Rainey so far as the success of the venture is 
concerned. He carried with him to Africa thirty- 
six Mississippi bearhounds for use in trailing 
lions, a new and novel venture in African hunt¬ 
ing annals. 
Mr. Rainey stated that the hunting frater¬ 
nity in Nairobi scoffed at his idea of trailing 
lions with dogs, and predicted that the dogs 
would not survive the first lion attack, and that 
as such a thing as lion hunting with dogs had 
never been heard of in Africa, the project must 
fail. 
Nothing daunted, Mr. Rainey proceeded to 
the jungles with his pack of bearhounds, which 
readily took the trail of the first lion scent and 
strung out in true hound fashion. He carried 
with him on the hunting trip a complete moving 
picture outfit, including an expert operator, and 
on each chase after lions and other animals the 
moving picture machine was present to record 
the actual occurrences of the hunt. These pic¬ 
tures, exhibited by Mr. Rainey as a supplement 
to his lectures, show many remarkable illustra¬ 
tions of animal life. For instance it showed 
how the hounds acted in chasing the lioness, and 
how the latter tried to escape the tormenting 
dogs, finally sinking on her haunches in an ex¬ 
hausted condition, too weary to fight the dogs 
further with the exception of an occasional slap 
or snap at the pack which surrounded her, keep¬ 
ing her at bay until dispatched with a well di¬ 
rected shot. 
In no instance did any dog show fear of 
the lion, and only one hound was lost straying 
from camp in a wounded condition, and was 
probably killed by some wild animal. 
Mr. Rainey surpassed the record of all lion 
hunters, having killed seventy-six, each of which 
was trailed and bayed by his bearhounds. There 
are also many specimens of different kinds of 
antelopes in the collection including the harte- 
beestes, wildbeestes and waterbucks, as well as 
buffaloes, zebras, cheetas. monkeys and rodents. 
A few hippo skulls and rhino skins and one ele¬ 
phant were also collected. A large number of 
birds were secured, including some of the rarest 
species. Many of them are game birds, among 
them guinea fowls and francolins (which resem¬ 
ble our partridges), and plantain eaters, crows, 
bustards, vultures, vulturine, owls, hawks, kites, 
secretary birds, hornbills, pigeons, parrots, sun- 
birds, fly-catchers, are also represented. There 
also are four ostrich eggs. 
The territory traversed was mostly to the 
north and east of that covered by Colonel Roose¬ 
velt on the earlier Smithsonian expedition, and 
included the country lying between the northern 
part of British East Africa and Southern Abys¬ 
sinia. 
