The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-17
THIS MAN GAN
.SHCW ROOSEvELT
SIR HARRY JOHNSTON GIVES !
IDEA OF WHAT THE PRESID1
SHOULD DO.

other white man. You wouldn't think
just from talking with him for few
minutes UP in his room at the Hotel
Chelsea, mat he is the man who dis
covered the Okapi in the RuwenZori
region, One-third of the way across
Africa from the east coast. But he
did, and maybe largely because OF
that discovery of the okapi he is
going to be the guest of President
Roosevelt on Friday, and maybe d
second time some time later.
People VINO know all about the Attn
plains. the snow crowned volcano OF
kenya and the easiest way to get To
Lake Albert are not very plentiful
about Washington. Sir Henry hap
pens to be in this country for two
months vacation. He is going to
Washington, on the invitation of the
president, to tell some things thai
the president wants TO know before
he starts out on that hunting trip next
March.
A Noted Explorer.
Perhaps there is no Englishman
who has covered so large a part OF
south Central Africa as Sir Harry.
He is counted an explorer over in
England, and his government has also
counted him as among the best of its
pioneers in the extension of hay
boundaries in the little known Afri-
can places.
Yet, explorer though he is, author
OF books of travel and the diplomatic
agent IN strange places at times when
most white men stayed away from
Just such places, Sir Harry says so
little about himself and so much
about things seeming of far less In
terest that he must be set down as
modest. He is a small man physical
ly, and the mOdeSty sets more easily
upon him than it would If he looked
the part of the stage hero of a thou
sand adventures.
Journey Into Forests.
Sir Harry was asked if his forth
coming call upon the president HAD
TO do with Mr. ROssevelts
plans for the itinerary of the African
trip.
''Oh, l can't say as to that" he re-
piled. "Of course. when | call upon
your president / will be in the way OF
telling him some things that any
sportsman would like to know before
visiting Uganda and the Nile country
will tell him, for example, just what
kind of a country he can expect, whas
game there is and where it can best
be found.
Suppose l say that this would be
the ideal trip that I would take-mind
You, | don't say that the president
will follow the same course. But this
is what | would do | would take the
railroad from Mombassa, that is where
President Roosevelt is to take the rail
road, | believe. First the railroad
leads through rich country of for
est There is some shooting there. OF
course, but that is too we'll known for
a sportsman who really wants TO 90
somewhere where other sportsmen
don't GO
An Ideal Trip.
Sir Harry said that the ideal trip he
was mapping out would call for a re-
turn to the railroad after dallying in
the kenya forests, and further. pro-
gress along by train to the NanchI
plateau that borders the northern end
OF Lake Victoria Nyanza
Here's country literally swarmins
with game of all kinds continued
the discoverer of the okapi OF the
lake 10 the north is Mount Elgon, an
extinct volcano rising out of the CEN
ter OF a miniature Yellowstone Park
.geyseTS, mud terraces and all thai
sort. All about is wilderness of the
finest sort. Hunt here for a while
and then keep on going in a straigh,
line to the native kingdom of Bugan-
da, one of the states of Uganda.
In BTganda there are net so many
game animals but a wonderful variety
OF birds. Here the whale headed
stork is found-a very. very strange
bird Indeed-sOmethiRg that would
please the sort of a sportsman who
went into Central Africa after some
thing new"
Sir Harry paused as he was draw
ing An imaginary boundary lire across
the cloth cover of his table.
1 beg that you will remember to he
definite and say that this IS only trip
such as | would take if I were doinS
u. You know l cannot tell what Mr.
roosevelt 5 plans may he and of
course there is nothing official in
what may say. | simply suggest"
Many Years in Africa.
The man who discovered the okapi
began his acquaintance with Africa
when he was p. and has been there
most OF the time since. In 1879 he
went on mission of exploration
through Portuguese West Africa. and
after the end of that journey he tray
eled on alone through the heart of the
congo region The following year he
commanded the scientific expedition
nj the Royal Society to Mount Kill
in East Africa.
The explorers work won recogni-
tIon from Lord Salisbury in 1888 after
ne had served as vice consul of the
CamerOons and Oil River country.
ana ne was appointed to take charge
OF the then little known territory of
Nigeria HIS many official positions
have carried him 10 NassaIand Rrir-
lsh Central Africa, the Niger Coast
Protectorate, Liberia and Uganda.IH
recognition OF his long service in At
RIGA he was kRighted in 1896 There
are dozen book of travel and of At
rfcan exploration TO his credit. He is-
considered an authority upon African
Fauna