Show y r rl il i l Jl I i ft 4 t r Li 4 i I 4 l r r Jt Z 1 1 1 Ml I Ir r i ly ro t 11 ns IK v N It I 1 T t th h l i I p pt pi pI pA t 1 IV f f I i I P A b T I I 1 Frederic C J f t k 1 t b 1 1 v Roosevelt I u i I r I 1 I rj L fei c li f L t tl r E 1 ae r V f f I gaze ac upon rr son Roosevelt the r great rent white seine chief chi f whose fame had hoJ penetrated pe Ih the most mos abysmal jungles of I their heir IlIc habitat i BEARDED grizzled slew slat Yet l et cl when the assembled r 1 tribesmen 11 b be bc r A man walked calked at al the side s de of for former held lit 1 the II r tor I figure i be bc beside mer r President Roosevelt as the Ie dis distinguished side Jide the lite form of tic the l lC great at ji tirl Jl American disembarked front from the white while i zile chief chit chic they tic had bud journeyed our tir cd so far to io V j steamer Admiral it II at al ill in ire British see sec whispering wh cring awe spread s hurriedly yr from front East Last Africa Afric JI rica l to 10 cul enjoy oy the tze dinner d 1 tendered man to 10 man Aran it seemed as is though till rill j him sure and his Ills party parI 1 by b the Club must have secs him lour before and arr r learned to todo toj j before he Ire made his way va inland for or the hunt hunting do reverence to 10 Iris Ins h s prowess 1 I i ing ilig grounds fill It is i s he heil 1 they tze ri All Jill the way from Naples Mr Roose Roosevelt J one olle to o another allol Itis tl Ii is s Ilz l veil velt dt and the gray slender titan man who joined hunter of AI a l hc who scho I hint him there had sought every opportunity oP uty to tobe 0 is awake in ill the night Ii be In ill each cach others company while for hours II 1 was ivas indeed Hie zi mightiest Nimrod of o c oat f fat at a lime the new member of tic the parly perty told modern modem limes 1 ick stories stori s of such SUeI elephant limiting in ili Africa JI l guide g lidl and 1111 allt intimate friend r of ofas o f fas r as no rte other man mall ever had the chance to 10 Mr jUr and the of that dar daring hear rear I ing ini shrewd dryly humorous staunch and All del the lite way teny Cia from Naples N too loo cabled gallant Al ii fr c whom the lite novels llO views news of the rc progress of the ship had Izad of Rider Haggard lea KSar d have I nc made ladr 1 as familiar forwarded for to 0 front the to lo the hr civilize worM world etc 1 exploits interior thousands of natives who traveled in ill tic the wilds Ira have l tIc made Iris his II is African rl 1 name hundreds of miles simply for the lite chance to 19 familiar la among tic the savages gc cs t There Thero knelt tho bull 13 as I had loft lort him last Lut B the remarkable l facts acts about Haggard gg s shero i r tit and a n too lao knelt tho other bulls hero t arc arc ure that his living iv original ol eras lias l as achieved d Do Up those p haute I p to lo the hed Gobo nil all n I and d moro than t I Ian the t wonderful I tales ta I C told tolu 1 of 0 f t roc Ioa they Hi they t j C sleep f hint him in III fiction that he ho has faced nud conquered j 4 Dead Xay 1 ay Goho coho they thc arc dead the most of 1101 is ninny ond ondas doud How lIow can they bo OU 1 Who 11 ho killed them thc as a ferocious us liS n tho those e c of o ill alt In i I II r s tullS Whal do people call me mc Gobo TV und and also ao that whore where civilL civilization d knows kilo s the un unreal And I They ahoy what call t you does docs g ou 8 real r l hunter as lI well as 11 it knows know its own butchers bulgier 51 It means me tho man Io p hl bl ties open or perhaps better savagery la j f tho the man n who Rots note up In tho l H lt TUder knows the th rein real 1 hunter 3 In lh l PH C us it has hns known and anu anuI I reverenced no mo other oth 1 white whito man manAs HOLMES may mn have achieved As for any nl Sherlock Holmes in the flesh I Ia Irl t S a wider wi er fame as liS a distinctively literary tho the people I who have met ill all the originals or i that I creation but I the tho character of Allan AI an ever claimed to bo lie the astute Mue detectives a prato pr lo yields to none mono in modern typo t po o dwindle to a mere mera coterie in ill comparison fiction for f r tho affection it has inspired in read 1009 readers with wip tine the thousands from the e to the tt ers frs or for deeds that surpass the I marvelous n nr lous upper Nile who wh have hove testified testa to the tho prowess Tho rho famous himself never hover excelled cx lIc in n of Scion Ha ITIl is IS the greatest hunter I detection the exploits of o hunt unit Hta over ever e or held L I j inc ini ill It is IS stud acid of him t he hc has slain slam moro morn t it S Ir Iri i fiig r I r 7 i a p Liiv I I IV Il V l Sf k i y J f 7 e c e S T 5 s zo zee It 1 ich eYe s v O o h rodi 4 OOS Jet I than th n elephants nearly half a hundred hun red lions J and us for or and buffalo both danger o foes to meet their numbers bring hrin the total of his really perilous encounters into the thousands thou thousands sands The Tho number of head of big game ame that havo have fallen to his been estimated while the deer and other animals killed for food would be bc beyond be computation During a u single expedition lusting six months III on his prizes included etc elc nine one hippopotamus one lion zebras andall and aid all the minor game rc re q to keep his force of negro carriers in fresh meat Museums of o tho the world preserve i 41 I lI lIt lIy lIy lIF lIti t 4 4 y I y I F i 7 ti i I 1 I ur i ay rl Y 1 y d 7 f ea er C cSek t S the theD D h O off l L Z I able specimens for which science is indebted to his hig daring aring and his hi skill Now nt ol tho the ago of pr 59 W years cars when he hc is lending his unparalleled I experience lIco to this latest hunt he lie is recognized as most indefatigable pur pursuer pursuer J since sinca ho ha was a boy of 15 1 4 Yet while he has hus tracked numberless herds a of elephants for their ivory tusks and faced i scores of lions lion in deadly encounter ho has 5 never killed for the mere mero sake of killing The greater number member of his shots havo hao been fired r for the tho prime need Heed of man food and during durinS ono one period extending over fifteen years apart from front the rico which supplied tho the farinaceous portion of his diet he be lived exclusively upon the panic came g me he lie brought down with his hi rifle riBe The quotation from incident in nims Revenge closes doses fictions account t of Quo unrelenting ling pursuit t of the huge hugo bull elephants that made ma c the mouth of o the veteran hunter fairly water waler for their possession He had wounded the largest of them but aided by b his companions ons the im ini immense immens I mense mens beast succeeded in escaping for the day n took up the hunt cud and ud stuck to lo it until his negro followers wearied and ap apprehensive were were on the verge of rebellion lebl Then in 11 tho night ni ht while his hi men were all I w j jAon asleep he heard hen rd the he t trumpet of an ait el cl Alone Aon in the dIC treacherous moonlight ho hn 1 set sot out to stalk tho the dangerous brutes Enden Endea Endeavoring oring orin to surprise them he ho was himself beset by hy all three By incredible agility and an amazing amazing ing Tt celerity of If rifle fire lire he ho slew every one Next feat morning he enjoyed the dismay and ond dis discomfiture discomfiture of Gobo the leader of the rebellious carriers Carriers Such n a hunting story is ordinarily read readable able ablo only in fiction just aa as account of bow Low shot hot n a rhinoceros through tho born horn would bo taken to be bo the tho allowable license of ot the tho romancer r GOES BEYOND FICTION But it is precisely precise here that the real ro il Nim Nimrod Nimrod Nimrod rod of Africa a has hns equaled and amI often gone one far farI beyond I the exploits of tho the unreal The Ibe mythical adventures with elephants and lions Hons are arc no more thrilling than have havo h o been those which in plain fact befell the tho thereal TOil real one and Iud if Mr Ir Roosevelt have in his com corn company pany anything like the tho hunters minters luck which has attended his new comrado comrade he ho will wiH not only have havo l wonders to relate on his own account but be ho will iII be a little more than fortunate fortunato if ho como come through the trip with a u skin entirely whole hole It was while in be bo yond void the I h l river when weakened by fever shut Scions Selous come upon a n herd of nearly ele dlo elephants 00 pI Besides his hi weakness ho he was handicap handicapped ped by hy riding a sulky and und irritable horse t I Nevertheless ho lie picked out the finest r tusker tucker of that vast ast herd rode within yards ra of him and mul shot him through the lungs I At that instant a powerful cow cO elephant 1 wheeled and aud charged Ho lIe succeeded cd in spurring his horse hor e into the thu thick brush and find the tho elephant abandoned tho the chase Scions promptly j i resumed rc tho the role of pursuer and attacked the tho herd her one Jill after another I 1 III It II was WIlS almost suicide for he lie sustained charges by br hugo hUlo elephants el that made two yards r to lo his hi horses one und and un once dismounting he left loH i his horse to its fate fat in iu the hope of being him himself ini i self overlooked Instead anything of worse oc oe occurring Oc Occurring earring tho the charging elephant simply stood be beside beside side the horse which showed no more mora fear feM thun than if tho giant in nt beast b fist hail had been a n rock thou then the walked quietly quiet away awa ami 1111 Scions a few fete minutes later killed it i Jn In all that day do he slew el single handed c five fire great nm t elephants a n record that t hit t leaves leave lea es the tho romancing ing by Haggard regarding very vcr mill potatoes indeed r The rhinoceros while not so dangerous in Mr Ir Scions opinion as fiS an elephant or a lion lien lionis r I is n a t foe foo f 00 to be dreaded when lie IT c has hns ti n odi fiendish h temper om por he ho is i 11 nigh omnipresent om i I and he resents to t the tho death the tho lie slightest sli intrusion I t V lion sion upon his Ius privacy I A occasion on which ho was iL II by hy n a nativo native foo foe is shown in photographs in lr l r I Selous own book where a i rhino entering a It I f ICO CONTINUED CO TI ON 0 i f J Y Yn II j 5 n t 1 Lr L I t y x |