Editor's Note: The wild animals of Africa have been hunted with
firearms for many a year, and photographed by more than one marksman of
the lens. But here is the truly unique expedition into the jungle. The
idea that any one should seriously contemplate a journey to Africa for
the purpose of lassoing such creatures as sportsmen either shoot or
photograph at the longest range possible, seems quite absurd. But an
American frontiersman has done it, with American cowboys, cow-ponies,
and hunting-dogs, and with wonderful moving pictures to prove it. It is
a fine evidence of the sporting qualities of both parties to the
undertaking that Colonel C. J. Jones, a Western plainsman, could so
completely interest Mr. Charles S. Bird, an Eastern manufacturer, in the
fantastic plan as to command his backing. And if there is such a thing
as the glow of adventure by proxy, it must have been felt in the Nassau
Street law office, where the Buffalo Jones African Expedition had its
headquarters, when the cablegram from Nairobi announced that lion and
rhino had been lassoed, and that the moving pictures were a complete
success.
