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Show CONCERNING EXPEDITION IN AFRICA Winston Spencer Churchill Traces Route Roosevelt Party Must Take The account given by the Right Hon. Winston Spencer Churchill, British Brit-ish minister of colonics, of his expedition expedi-tion In 3rltlah East Africa tracts almost al-most step by step the route to be followed fol-lowed by the Roosevelt party. During country prrhaps from an old fashion1 rbtirrh pow faplened abovo tho cowcatcher cow-catcher of an enciiip. As the land unfolds itself before the travellers, game of endless variety will bo seen, and deep gorges crossed while occasional oc-casional plantations or cotton, inbhor and fibre and trim little railway stations sta-tions will give a touch of modem tfilor to tho otherwise prehistoric sc-ne. On either tide the train may in- fcon an endless procession of wild i'liimuls. which seem to liavo learned t'nnt the formidable looking locomotive locomo-tive cannot leave the rails over which it moves through their tiomain. Troops ol zebras, herds of autelope, Mad; v. ildebecstes. herds of red - konkoni, anu. In fact, most every imaginable beast is to be seen, with the exception of the lion, tho rhinoceros and thn elephant. Good fortune may even bring theso within the ken or the rail-passenKor, rail-passenKor, and at Slmba,' popularlv known as "'the place of lions," the guides generally promise the sight of the regal animal. But this Is exceptional, excep-tional, and the paucity of this gannj is due to tho greed of the hunter, for not so long ago it was the practice to stop these trains wherever opportunity opportun-ity offered to shoot a Hon or two. The royal vermin have profited by the experience ex-perience of unfortunate relatives, and row the -stopping of a train or wagon is the cue for the exit from the scene ol this wily animal. Hunters travel ing by caravan upon sighting a lion arc said now to drop nnobsorved trom their wagon while the vehicle Itselt continues lu motion. The abseuce o. tliu rhinoceros rfom this railway review re-view is popularly credited to the fate of an ill advised member of the rpecies, who tried conclusions with a swiftly moving locomotive. The elephant ele-phant is still more reserved, and uoth-Inc uoth-Inc but the rarest chance will perm", a view of him while a train of cars is within his sight. Contrary to popular opinion, perhaps, per-haps, the courage of the Roosevelt party will not be tested by its encounters en-counters with lions, for 1his beat beats a hasty retreat when approacheri. und only shows its fighting qualities when at bay. If a lion is slaughtered It will be known that tho hunters pursued pur-sued with lelentlessness, disregarding the pitfalls or the rough counrry. where a misstep means disaster. Rather will valor be shown ln the claying of a rhinoceros. The huge I ody offers an easy mark, but the bnll's-eve Is the eyo or heart. Unless jou hit a vital spot he taKrs his turn iit yon promptly. Mr. Churchill got a rhinoceros out of a herd of thret. ile says: "Great Is the moral effect of a to" vho advances. Everybody fired. Stlil the ponderous brute came on as if no were invulnerable; as if tho were an engine or some great steam barge Impervious to bullets, insensible to pain or fear. Thirty seconds more and lie will close. An Impalpable curtain cur-tain seems to roll itself up m tho nvind. revealing a mental picture strangely lighted, yet very' still, where objects have new values and where a patch of white grass ln the foreground fore-ground four or five yard6 away seems to possess astonishing significance, it is there that the last two shots that yet remain before the resources ot civilization arc exhausted must do fired. There Is time to reflect with tome detachment that, after all, we are the aggressors; we it is who ha( forced the conflict by an unprovoked assault with murderous intent upon a peaceful herbivore; that if there is such a thing as right and wrong between be-tween man and beast and who shall say there is not? right is, plainly or. his side; there Is time for this before I perceive that, stunned and dazed by the frightful concussions of - modern firearms, he has swerved sharp to the right, and is now moving across our fiont, broadside on, at the same swiit trot. More firing, and as I reload some one says he is down, and I fire instead at his smallor companion, already al-ready !:)me distance ofT upon the plain, but one rhinoceros hunt is like another,' except in its details, aud J will not occupy the reader with tho accouut of this new pursuit and death. Suffice it to say that, in all the ele-n ele-n ents of neurotic experience, such an encounter seems to me fully equal 't half an hour's brisk skirmish at six or seven hundred yards and with an important addition. " lnwar there is a cause, there is duly, there is the 1 ope of glory, for who can tell what may be won before night? But here at the end is only-a hide, a horn and a carcass, over which the vultures have already begun to wheel.' his trip Mr. .Churchill's English servant serv-ant succumbed to a mysterious and swiftly fatal fever, but the minister and the other two white men who accompanied ac-companied him suffered no ill effects from their equatorial Journey. According to Mr. Churchill's observations, obser-vations, it would sec-m that by far the most interesting portion of the Roosevelt Roose-velt trip will be through the Uganda protectorate, where travel Is by foot, bicycle or caravan, unless one" elects to ride upon a seat borne on the shoulders shoul-ders of natives. The Uganda railroad, contrary to the suggestion of its name, does not penetrate Uganda, but onlv reaches to it, its inland terminus being be-ing at Port Florence, on Lake Victoria. Not until the railroad has been left behind aud the party enters Uganda proper, the garden of flowers and butterflies, but-terflies, will the supremest possibilities possibili-ties of the exploration be realized. Sinister Sin-ister beasts there are without number, num-ber, but the forests that conceal them are of surpassing grandeur and the foliage of indescribable beauty. The natives are friendly, gentle of manner man-ner and of considerable intelligence. The air is soft and cool. Yet the contrast, con-trast, between appearance and reality Is striking, for this enchanted land is cursed with malignant attributes. Every Ev-ery white man seems to feel a sense of undefinable oppression, and Mr. Churchill says that It will never be a white man's country. "A cut will not heal; h scratch festers. In the third year of residence even a small wound becomes a running sore. One day a man feels perfectly well; the next, for 110 apparent cause," he is prostrate with malaria, and with malaria of a peculiarly pe-culiarly persistent kind, turning often in the third or fourth attack to black-water black-water fever." A dally dose of ten grains of quinine served to ward off malaria in the case of the Churchill party. The impression gained from Mr. Churchill's writings Is that the traveler travel-er has less to fear from the ferocious beasts that inhabit the alluringly beautiful beau-tiful fastnesses than from the fever transmitted by the tsetse fly, which, when infected in a manner yet undetermined unde-termined by scientists, becomes a deadly assassin. But the zone of the tsetse fly is known; his home ii in the trees and bushes and near tho water, and he may be avoided. Thus tho danger from this source, broadly speaking, may be said to be proportionate propor-tionate with the risk which the explorer explor-er voluntarily assumes in the pursuit of his explorations, allowance being made always for bad judgment and the unexpected fortunes of the hunt. Then there arc leg-long boots, gloves that reach to the elbow and veils to. completely protect the head and neck. Mosquito netting incloses the camper at night, and in the morning he habitually habit-ually empties his boots of any undesirable unde-sirable tenant that may have wiggled in under cover of darkness. In the case of the Roosevelt party Major Edgar Ed-gar A. Mearns will be always at hand with his antiseptics. But, however handicapped the tsetse fly may be in the future pursuit of his nefarious calling, bis assassinations of the past are worthy of record. According Ac-cording to Mr. Churchill, this deadly insect first appeared in the kingdom "of Uganda in the summer of 1901, ami within five years had killed two out of three of all the inhabitants, no less than 200,000 persons dying from the poison which he spread. "It might have been expected," wrote Sir H. Hesketh Bell, the governor of Uganda, to Mr. Churchill, in reply to a query on the subject, "that, even though the negroes showed inability to grasp the theory of the transmission of disease bv the agency of insects, the undenia- j ble deadllness of the countries bordering bor-dering on the lake shore would have induceJ them to flee from the stricken land and to have sought in tho healthier health-ier districts inland a refuge from the pestilence that was slaying them by thousands. An extraordinary fatalism, however, seems to have paralyzed the natives, and while deploring the sadness sad-ness of their fate, they appear to have accepted death almost with apathy." But the helplessness of the native has given place to the knowledge of the white man, before which the tsetse fly has fallen back, and the sleeping sjcknes. if not conquered, in less to be feared than a few years ago. Miles of brush, fertile breeding places of disease, have been cut away, and in its place is growing the vigorous cit-ronella cit-ronella grass. But it will be some time before the party reaches Uganda and for the first six months headquarters will be at Nairdbl, from which point numberless excursions will be made. Nairobi is the capital of the East African protectorate, pro-tectorate, and is 327 miles from Mombasa Mom-basa by rail. It is built on lowland, and Is not particularly healthful, and of its 14,000 residents less than COO are white. There are 10,000 natives and the rest are Indians. Here is. stationed sta-tioned "a brigade of the king's African rifles, and the town is the headquarters headquar-ters of the administration and the cen- tral office of the Uganda railroad. Before Be-fore Nairobi is reached the Roosevelt party will have an Interesting railroad Journey, which will be accomplished with less discomfort than one might imagine would be possible over a road tbc locomotives of which depend upon wood for fuel. Built by the British government and steadily improved, the road has reached a state of creditable frkienry. Tho roadbed Is good and lhe gradual Incline Is overcome at fairly good speed. When Mr. Churchill made this trip he occupied a seat on the cowcatcher, and it Is uafo to say that the Americana will be satisfied I with no lesser point of vantage. The magazine reader may expect before long to see pictured the members of the Roosevelt expedition viewing the |