He and his men endured great hardships and privations, but finally, by roping, secured about a dozen yearlings.

The Indians swore that he should not take them out of their territory.

On returning he had got as far as the very edge of the Indian country and was a very proud and well-pleased man.

But that last fatal morning he woke up to find all the animals with their throats cut.

Only last year Jones, with two New Mexican cowboys and a skilled photographer, formed the daring and apparently mad plan of going to Africa and roping and so capturing any wild animal they might come across, barring, of course, the elephant.