Show ROOSEVELT'S HUNT FOR FOA AFRICAN AFRIGAN GAME lions and Other Animals Shot in Large Numbers t YEAR fEAR ON DARK CONTINENT i Naturalists Collected Hundreds of Specimens for the Smithsonian Institution Kermit Institution Kermit PhotograPher Photographer of the Party Theodore Roosevelt's hunting trip In Africa rica officially known as the Smithsonian Smith Smith- onlan African expedition lasted nearly neary near near- ly y eleven months and was most successful suc suc- In ever every way The colonels colonel's desire lesire to hunt big game was not all that hat was back of the trip for the Smithsonian Institution wanted specimens specimens mens of the fauna and flora of the Dark Continent and commissioned the president x-president to obtain them For this I reason eason a part of the thc expenses were horne borne orne by the Institution but Mr Roosevelt loosevelt paid all the expenses of himself and his son Kermit bly ly earning much of them by his artiles arti arti- 1 ales cles les in a magazine for which he re- re elved a record breaking price I 1 Not wasting much time after leav leav- 1 leav- leav leaving ing ig the White House Colonel Roose Roose- t velt elt sailed from New York on the thet t t steamship Hamburg headed for Na- Na p iles les With him were Kermit and andree three ree naturalists Major Mearns Edund Ed- Ed und and Heller and J. J Alden Loring and Stowed in the hold was most of their f elaborate elaborate outfit for killing or photo- photo q a the animals of East Africa and for preserving the specimens des- des ined d for the Smithsonian Institution lit hermit had trained himself to be the ti k J T Tt t r bRt se k a y t oil r man x i ie 1 wr Si e v S y t i by Underwood JE i T IN THE AFRICAN JUNGLE f ft T ef f photographer of the expedition t t e. e r he also turned out to be consider consider- of a hunter be baTek great great throng of friends and adare adars ad- ad ars are lers lere rs bade the colonel farewell and I ad-I tats lats Called ailed away but could not entirely suet SUCh rate ate himself from the world orld for alty iii J all the way wa way y across the At At- Ic is wireless communication with 11 t Ha Hamburg was vas maintained morer More More- r r at the Azotes Azores and again at ther altar he found the officials and andle le Insisted on doing him honor aid te L wh hen en he reached Naples r on April to 1 e e entire populace turned out to tot ri iVf t him with flowers and cheers jj arding ling the German steamship Adr Adfor Ad- Ad r I for Mr Roosevelt is AfI id I d dIn d In his cabin a quantity of flow flow- hat flow hat t nd d a letter from Emperor William Williamt t t got gotto ing him good hunting At Mesa Mes- Mes a stop was made to view the th JIll quake ruins and there at King 1 r Emm Emmanuel's anuel request air Mr Roose Roose- d r J i and nd Kermit visited visited the Italian e Ia 3 rell on oo b board oard the battleship Rex irto erto The Tho party arrived at Mom Morn i April 21 and was received by Wrong Irto g Governor Jackson who had hadOS Instructed by the British U 10 lions OS 9 govern- govern ito lloD i to Ita to do all in his 1 power L. L to further true ue ans US 0 of OI the ine expedition unusual tr s It were granted the hunters Mr j r. r Roosevelt and Kermit were per e Nt Led d ed to kill lions face the party was Joined ture la-ture J J J. J Cuninghame a n veteran Noman i V ui a hunter and explorer and Leslie J J. J doD ton and these two managed the theRion I Ulon Rion In a most able manner j strain g train to to a in fn case ca' ca ion Of-ion Plains tho the u If r became the tac guests of Sir Alfred 0 ores 9 yo Jon oa n his ranch An Immense t agree u en u of persons was organized e of III lne 1 Ilin u n April Apr 11 25 Colonel Roosevelt s ia first African hunt On this divor divOrce r rot t on on n he two a J bagged two wildebeests t Thompsons Thompson's gazelle April 30 4 e day In the camp on the pol pout l t tr tor r on that day the first lions llona re e as an to the thc m marksmanship of r E Theodore shot two o- o f one and there was great I ie to got ot otie aP A Aures d a g among the natives who mace maae i I u ures res gotI rS I J caravan n After that the big I t game came fast and cheetahs giraffes rhinoceroses and more lions were added to the list In all 14 varieties of animals being secured Meanwhile Kermit was busy with his cameras and the naturalists prepared the George McMillan 1 an nn American was the next host of the hunters and several several sev seve eral weeks were spent on his fine Ju JuJa JuJa JuJa Ja ranch and in the surrounding coun coun- try There the game was very plentiful ful and many fine specimens were bagged Members of the party made several extensive trips of exploration notably on and around Mount Kenia The expedition left East Africa December De De- December cember 19 crossed Uganda and went I down the White Nile getting back to comparative civilization at There they went aboard a steamer put at their disposal by the sirdar and aud Journeyed to Khartum where Mrs Roosevelt met her husband and accompanied him in a leisurely trip to te Cairo Caho During his stay in Egypt Col Colonel Colonel Colonel onel Roosevelt was the recipient 01 ol many honors and made several speeches One of them in which h he praised the administration of th the British gave considerable offense tc the native Nationalists At the end ol of March the sailed for Italy I In a preliminary report repert to the th Smithsonian Institution Mr Roosevelt Roosevell summarized the material results oJ of the expedition as follows On the trip Mr Heller has prepared prepared pre pre- pared 1020 specimens of mammals the majority of large size Mr Loring s has prepared and Doctor Mearns a a total of mammals Of birds Doctor Mearns has prepared nearly Mr Loring and Mr Heller about fifty fifty fifty-a a total of about birds Of reptiles and batrachians Mearns Loring and Helier HeUer collected about 2000 Of fishes about were collected Doctor Mearns collected marine fishes near Mambas a and fresh water fishes elsewhere in British East Africa and he and Cuninghame collected fishes In the White Nile This makes males in al aI of vertebrates Mammals Birds about Reptiles and batrachians about 2000 Fishes about Total The invertebrates were collected chiefly by Doctor Mearns with some assistance from Cuninghame and Kermit Roosevelt A few marine shells were collected near and land and freshwater freshwater fresh fresh- water shells throughout the regions visited as well as crabs beetles and other invertebrates Several thousand plants were collected collected col col- throughout the regions visited by Doctor Mearns who nho employed and trained for the work a l named who soon learned how to make very good specimens and turned out an excellent man in every way Anthropological materials were I gathered by Doctor Mearns with some I assistance from others a collection was contributed by Major Ross an American In the government service at Nairobi E E. 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