Show SLEW MUCH GAME IN JUNGLES OF AFRICA colonel roosevelt B aggee elephants lions and many other animals sending tile the specimens to the smithsonian institute kermit the expeditions expedition photographer n colonel roosevelt olt added much to it his ble fame as a hunter of big game dur dm ing his 11 months in east bast africa and also sent a great number of valuably ablo y specimens of the tauna fauna and flora floia of that region to the smithsonian fusti gutlon aution which alch partly financed the expedition tion the individual expenses of mr air roosevelt and his son if were paid by the former who earned large sums by writing articles attl atti cles for a magazine descriptive of his expert ances not wasting much time after leaving the white house colonel 4 ll 11 velt sailed from new york on an the I 1 i steamship hamburg headed for na ples pies with him were kermit and three naturalists natura lists major mearns lads eds mund heller and J alden loring and stowed in the hold was most of their elaborate outfit for killing or photographing the animals of east africa and for preserving the specimens destined 7 for the smithsonian institution kermit had trained himself to be the chief photographer of the expedition but he also turned out to bo be consider tf c able of a hunter A groat great throng of friends and alid admirers bado bade the colonel farewell and I 1 he sailed away but could not entirely ent liely separate himself from the world for practically all the way across the atlantic wireless communication with A the hamburg was maintained alore over at the azores and again it at gibraltar he found the officials and 5 people insisted on doing him honor and when he reached naples on A april pi 11 6 the entire populace turned tinned out to greet him with flowers and cheers boarding the german steamship admiral for Mom Alom basa mr roosevelt found in his cabin a quantity of ilow flow ers and a letter from emperor william wishing him good hunting at mes sina aina a stop was made to view the earthquake ruins and there at king victor manuels emmanuela Em request mr air roose velt and kermit visited the italian monarch on board the battleship rex umberto the party arrived at mom alom f basa april 21 and was received by added to the list in all 14 varieties ot of animals being secured meanwhile kermit was busy with his bis cameras and the naturalists natura lists prepared the specimens george AlcA lillan an Anie american rican was tho the next host of the hunters and sev oral weeks were spent on his one fine ju ja hii ranch and in tho the surrounding country there the game was very plentiful and many fine specimens bagged Al members embers of the party made several extensive trips of exploration notably on and around mount denla the expedition left east africa do da camber 19 crossed uganda and went down the white nile getting back to comparative civilization at Gond there ther 0 they went aboard a steamer put at their disposal by the sirdar and journeyed to khartum khartun Khar tum where mra airs roosevelt met her husband and accompanied him in a leisurely trip to cairo during his stay in egypt colonel roosevelt was the recipient of many honors and made sev several oral speeches one of them in which he be praised the administration of the british tish gave considerable offense to tile the native nationalists at tho the end ol of march the Roosevel ts sailed balled for italy in a preliminary report to tho the smithsonian institution mr roosevelt summarized the material results of the expedition as aa follows on the trip mr air heller has prepared 1020 specimens of mammals the majority of large size mr loring lorang has prepared and doctor mearns a total of niam mammals mals of birds doctor mearns has haa prepared nearly mr air loring and mr air heller about fifty a total of about birds of reptiles and Ales sirs mearns loring and heller collected about 2000 of nashea about were collected doctor mearns collected marine fishes near Mom basa and fresh water fishes elsewhere in british east africa and he and cunynghame collected fishes in the white nile t V 13 RM A 3 Z mw 44 V k 4 nr P kg am win ster copyright by underwood A underwood NT THE RAILWAY FROM al acting governor jackson who had 1 been instructed by the british government to do till all in his power 0 a aurther the plans plana of the ex expedition p edit lor unusual privileges were granted the hunters and mr air roosevelt and kermit wore were licensed to kill lions at Alom basa the party was joined by R J cuninghame a veteran aarl pan gan hunter and explorer aud and leslie J tarleton and these two managed the expedition in a most able manner taking train to plains the party became the guests of sir alfred pease on his ranch an immense caravan of persons was organized md and on april 25 26 colonel roosevelt had his first african hunt on this occasion he bagged two wildebeests and a thompsons Thomp sons gazelle april SO 30 was a notable day in the camp on the 4 atef for on that day the first lions fall ell victims to the in marksmanship arks manship of the Roosevelt Roosevel ts fl Tb theodore eodore shot two and kermit one and there was great rejoicing among the natives who made up the caravan after that the big game camo came fast and cheetams cheetahs che hs giraffes rhinoceroses rhinoceros es and more lions were this makes in al of vertebrates mammals birds about reptiles aal and batrachians ns about 2000 fishes about total nS OT the invertebrates were collected chiefly by doctor mearns with some assistance from Aless rs and kermit roosevelt A few marine shells were collected near Moni Alom basa and land and freshwater shells throughout the regions visited as well as crabs beetles milli beds and invertebrates several thousand plants were collected throughout the regions visited by doctor mearns who employed and trained for the work a named Makan garri who soon learned how ho w to make very good specimens and turned out an excellent man in every way anthropological materials were gathered by doctor mearns with some assistance from others a collection was contributed by major ross an american in the government service at nairobi E WEBSTER W U B 9 T E H |