Show ROOSEVELT OFF k FOR GREAT HUNT EX PRESIDENT SAILS AWAY TO DARK CONTINENT TO BE IN AFRICA A YEAR then he will travel and speak in europe three skilled natural ats and his son kermit accod pany him new york LT theodore heodore roosevelt Koo sevelt ex presta president ent of the united states sailed out of new york harbor tuesday on the steamer hamburg of the hamburg american line on the way to his much heralded hunting trip in british east africa on the dock was a large assemblage of mr roosevelt Roosevel ts s friends who had gathered to bid him hird godspeed god speed and who cheered him as he stood at the rail of the steamer waving his hand and smiling with beside him stood the three men selected from hundreds of 0 alp ai p mcants to accompany him and assist him in collecting the specimens of african fauna which he hopes to send back tor for the enrichment of df the Smith in institution these fortunate individuals were maj ed gar A mearns J loring aiden alden and edmund heller they comprise the smithsonian s expedition the fifth member of the little party and cot not to be considered of least importance was CA rara 6 arcond 0 N TH RT a I 1 a u rp aa a a I 1 a r FTH A U va A KHA TOOM carara r 00 VIM aw Z A 1 f 0 v X k ao 10 e f icib IRA EAST africa ENT rr 3 PORT I 1 adf VIC 70 1 ROUTE OF THE ROOSEVELT PARTY IN AFRICA he ex president presidents s second son kermit will be the official photo photographer grabher at df the expedition and next to his ather the chief hunter to via naples mr air roosevelt will go via gibraltar to naples where he will board a steamer of the german east african line for Kilin dint harbor the port of at the latter place the party will be joined by R J cun aing hame an englishman of long ex peri ence in africa who has been en as general manager and guide the party will spend a short time in and then proceed by train on the uganda railway to nairobi headquarters of the administration of east africa protectorate a city of 13 inhabitants of whom are Furo europeans on macmillan s ranch william illiam vV northrup macmillan for formerly of st louis owns a large estate near nairobi and his big lux urious farmhouse will be headquarters for about six months while the hunt ers and scientists make trips of vary ing length in all directions it is in this section that mr roosevelt hopes to obtain most of his specimens for it abounds with animals of all kinds the smaller mammals will be trapped the supplies of the arty are packed in tin lined boxes these boxes when they have been emptied will be used as pack ng cases tor for the various apeci mens many valuable natural history specimens have been spoiled by ants and other insects it has been found from experience on other expeditions and it is to guard against this that the tin lined boxes are being taken along caring for specimens when the specimens have been pre pared they will be carefully packed in the boxes and shipped to nairobi where they will be forwarded to the united states one of the mists will always be with mr roose velt and as soon as any big game Is I 1 shot hot by him it will be skinned and prepared on the spot mr roosevelt will be greatly di dl appointed it if he fails to kill several specimens of the white rhinoceros this animal Is the same as the square mouthed rhinoceros and is the nearest living ally to the type of the extinct Ti chorine or woolly rhinoceros which lived in england at the close ol 01 the glacial period journey across uganda leaving Isai nairobi robi in october the party will proceed by the uganda railway to port florence on the shores of lake victoria nyanza where a short stop hill be made then a steamer will be taken to entebbe miles away there a caravan will be formed and the journey across uganda to the nile will m ill be begun it Is expected that the white nile will be reached about the first ot of the year 1910 lake albert nyanza will be touched at cibira in a general way the course of 0 the nile will be followed to Gond and thence to khartoum at this city mr roosevelt and kermit will be joined jo ned by mrs roosevelt and they will continue down the nile slowly to cairo visiting many I 1 points eints of 0 interest on the way to speak in european capitals plans for the remainder 0 of the ex presidents two years tour have not been decided upon definitely but the time will be spent in europe and sev eral matters of importance have been announced he will visit berlin at tha the invitation pt of emperor william and while there will deliver an addres upon the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the university of berlin prom from germany he will go to france and deliver an address at the sor bonne it has not been learned how long mr roosevelt intends to stay in berlin and paris after his visit in france mr air roosevelt will go to eng land where a reception of great warmth undoubtedly will be accorded to him he has accepted an inyl invitation tation to deliver the romanes lecture at ox ford university and in all probability ability the honorary degree of D C L which oxford has besto bestowed aed on emperor emper 0 r will lam will be conferred on mr roose velt the versatility of mr roosevelt will be shown by the tact fact that he will speak german in his address before the students of the university of ber lin french in his lecture at the sor bonne and english in delivering the romanes lecture at oxford pays his own expenses mr roosevelt will defray the ex benses of himself and his son on the african trip but those of the eclen fists and the cost of preparing the specimens and shipping them to amer lea ica will be paid out of a fund secured for the purpose by the smithsonian Smiths onlan institution one of the objects of mr air roosevelt in taking this trip Is tor for the purpose of collecting material for writing sev eral books regarding his experiences during last summer he contracted with charles scribner s sons of new york giving that firm all the rights for the serial erial and book form publication ol 01 whatever h might write on his visit to africa it Is said that the contract price agreed upon Is 1 per word but this never has been verified veri I 1 ed no slaughter of animals even it if the british colonial govern ment should offer to throw open to mr roosevelt and his companions the at af rican game preserves under its con arol the ex president will refuse to take advantage of this opportunity like other true sportsmen be he believes that the utmost protection should be given to wild animals on reservations and that permission to kill them should not be given or accepted under any circumstances unless possibly when pre batory animals are becoming too numerous moreover the killing of animals tor for sport Is not the main object of his trip mr roosevelt hopes to send back to the smithsonian institution two adult specimens one of each sex and a specimen of their oung cf animals he meets with on the dark continent beyond this the killing will be llin 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