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Show ROOSEVELT WILL BE QUITE SALE IN AFRICA WOMAN WHO MADE THE TRIP MAKES THIS STATEMENT. There Is Little Danger, She Avers, If Ordinary Precautions Are Taken by the Traveler. j New York, March S3. Contrary to I tho views of one or two eminent Am-1 crican professors, Mrs. Frederick Hellman, the wife of a mining engl-1 neor, and tho only American woman who has taken the trip across AHica along the route which will be followed follow-ed by Mr. Roosevelt, does not think that the former president runs any particular risk or perishing either by wild animals, insects or pestilence, "Mr. Roosevelt will De quite sale iu Africa," says she. ' Really there is very little danger," she continued, "it ordinary precautions are taken by tho traveler. Wild animals will keep out of the way of hunters, as a rule, unless un-less they are Interfered with in their pursuit of game, but, if wounded, they will attack a man." The most deadly disease in lOast Africa was the peeping sickness which carried off 200.000 natives, Mrs. Hellman said, from the shores of Lake Victoria, Mrs. Hellman Is the first American woman to make tho African trip. She Is not the first white woman to claim tho honor, Mrs. Mario Hall, an English Eng-lish womun. having successfully made the Journey before. Mrs;. Hellman accompanied her husband from Mombasa Mom-basa across the East African protectorate protec-torate . and Uganda to Gondohoro In 1907-'08. With the exception or one case, when she wan pursued by a herd of wild elephants, the party met with no exciting or especially dangerous dan-gerous rolpsbaps, although Mrs. Hellman Hell-man suffered slightly from tropical fever. |
