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Show UK PIOVL ABQUT HBffElT'8 TENTS Former President Pitches Camp .nt .Hunting' Ground; Pros-I Pros-I pect of Good Sport. KAPJ'IT PLAINS, British East Africa. Af-rica. April 2i5. Theodore Roosevelt has reached the hunting grounds aiu tonight to-night prepared to pass his first night in Africa under canvas. A big camp has been established near the railroad station. Last night lions were prowling prowl-ing about in the vicinity of lho tents. Tho country is green, owing to the recent re-cent rains, and there is every 'prospect of good sport. The commoner varieties of game are plentiful, and the huntsmen hunts-men will lose no time in getting started. start-ed. The special train bearing the Roosevelt Roose-velt party from Mobasa arrived this afternoon". Only tho members of the party got off at Kapiti Plains. F. .1. JaelLson, the ' acting governor of the protectorate, and the other officials who came up from Mombasa, continued on to Nairobi. The camp is most elaborate. The caravan will have 2G0 followers. There are thirteen tents for tho Europeans and their horses, and sixty tents for the porters. An American ilag is Hying over ihe tent occupied by Mr. Roosevelt. Roose-velt. All the native porters wero lined up on the platform wlien tho Roosevelt special pulled in and as Mr. Roosevelt stepped down from the train they shouted shout-ed a salute in his honor. Mr. Roosevelt "was welcomed at the station by Sir Alfred Pease, who will be his host at Athi river. Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt was on the cow catcher of the engine when the train pulled in, having occupied that position for seventy-nine miles between Makvndu aud Kapiti Plains. He said he was intensely interested inter-ested in the country, and expressed his gratitude and delight at the hospitality shown him by the acting governor and by Mrs. Jackson. The caravan includes four head men, nine gun bearers, twelve armed guards, 200 porters and nine horses. Mr. Scions is going on a lion hunt with Mr. McMillan. Mc-Millan. He is not attached to tho Roosevelt party, the only members of which licensed to shoot lions being Mr. Roosevelt and Kcrmit. |