The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-11-06
PRES. ROOSEVELT
PREPARES FOR
HIS HUNT
THAT HE WILL DE-
PART FROM NEW YORK MARCH
10 = OUTLINE OF HIS TRIP is
ALSO ANNOUNCED.

New York. Nov. 4--From an
excellent authority The New York
Times has learned that President
Roosevelt plans to leave New York
March 10. nine days after the inau-
guration by the North German Lloyd
liner Koenig Albert, for Naples, on
March 25. His expressed desire is to
get away as soon as possible. so as
not to embarrass Mr.. Taft in his new
ONCE.
Besides his son Kermit. who will
take photographs of big game in Afri-
ca. he will 0e accompanied by a pro
fessor from the smithsonian Institu-
lion and an official from the navy de-
paftment They have not yet been
chosen, but several are under Consid-
Grafton. One will have a knowledge
of medicine SO lhat when the party
leaves the Uganda railroad and starts
into the unbeaten paths OF the east
ia African forests members of the
eNHedition may be properly cared for
From Naples Mr. Roosevelt and his
party VIM travel on one of The Ger
man east African steamers to Nom
Dassa, via the Suez canal and Alden,
a sea journey of seventeen days in
Cluding stops.
So far no arrangements have been
made for the six months the party
will spend in Uganda province be-
tween the coast and Port Florence a
distance of 594 niles On Lake Vic
toria Nyanza The party will embark
for Entebbe, in central Africa. One
thing certain is that Mr. Roosevelt
viii not enter the Congo territory.
President Roosevelt has received an
ingitation from Mr. Mcmillan, nephew
OF the late Senator James Mcmillan,
Of Detroit, who owns $4,000 acres of
forest mountain and Jungle in the
Nairobi district of Uganda, to shoot
Owe. his estates and use the comfort
abla shooting boxes chat have been
erected in various sections where big
game is to De found
The president is scheduled to arrive
at Entebbe early in December. where
! his native porters, hunters and guides
viii be waiting to conduct him through
central Africa, exploring some of the
tributaries of the Nile and eventually
/ landing him at GOndokoro, the from
tier post of the Sudan, some time to-
ward the euG of April, 1919.
The lumber of natives to be en-
ployed on that part of the journey has
not yet beeu settled, but it is estimat-
ID that somewhere around fifty will
bc needed Each man will carry on
ar average Q load Of fifty pounds on
his nead
! While 10 fixed plan has been made
for the hunt ng trips, it was stated
yesterday hat the president will not
follow the beaten paths of travellers
ana nuntcrs in the east African pro-
tectoratc, or cn any part of his jour
ney in Africa, but will strike out on
new tracks for himself.
From En;efbe the distance to be
covered ON foot and by beat on the
riyeis and lakes to Khartoum, where
il is c>.pe@cd that Mrs. Roosevelt Will
probably join the party, will be about
5000 miles. The journey from Condo
A0W by steamer win take eleven days
and The vessels leave once a month.
FroD KhaHc>n the railway jour
news acrcss hc deacr, to Wadi- Halfa.
10 fho second cataract of the Nile.
takes thirty tx hours. and from that
p5iul t,l re is Il guar Steamboat SER
rice down % Assouan on the first