The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-11-14
ROOSEVELT PLANS
FOR HUNTING TRIP
ARE COMPLETE
WILL SAIL FOR AFRICA ON
MARCH 10 AND START INLAND
FROM MoM5AssA-To AVOID
THE CONGO.

WASHINGTON. Nov. l3.-As sooL
as William Howard Taft has taken the
oath OF ONCE IL president. Theodore
Roosevelt viii loavs the capitol grand
stand. drive TO the station and take
a special train for Oyster Bay.
The president will remain Ut Oyster
Bay from March 4 10 March -. when
he will sail for Africa.
President Roosevelt Will be accom-
panied by his son. Kermit and by two
men OF science, one OF whom will be
doctor. The party will eail from
New York March Is on the North Ger
man Lloyd steamer Koenig Albert.
which Is due to arrive at Naples
March 25. The stay In that city will
be only a few hours. just long enough
for the party to transfer TO q German
East African steamship.
That ship will carry the four to
kilindini Harbor. the port nearest
Mombassa
Starts From Mombassa.
The railroad Journey from Mombas-
So TO Port Florence will be the nrst
stage Of the African journey. q dis
lance OF 5s4 miles through a part OF
the Continent that has been opened
10 civilization but which nevertheless
abounds In game. Rich men hold
thousands OF acres In that part OF
Africa as game preserves. One OF
them Is William Mcmillan, nephew Of
the late Senator Mcmillan. OF Michi-
gan.
He has invited the president to
shoot over his vast estate on which
there are shooting lodges and other &C
commodations for hunters. That 70
the Nairobi country, In which 1.-the
average man who goes TO east Africa
on hunting expeditions spends most
OF his time
From the time OF his arrival until
the beginning of December the presi-
dent has planned to spend In getting
from Mombassa 10 Entebbe. The last
mentioned place is the point for the
departure into the real wilderness be-
tween Lake Victoria Nyenza and Con
dokoro, the frontier post OF the Sou
dan, stretch of country that will re-
Quire travel on foot and by boat OF
between $500 and 5000 miles. accord
ing to whether the hunt follows an air
line or winds around between the two
points.
viii steer Clear Of Congo.
While the president will go west
ward from Lake Victoria Nyanza. his
wanderings will not lead him to the
Congo country. At Entebbe the presi
dent will be met by a party OF hunt
ers familiar with that part Of the con
tinent between Entebbe and Condo
koro.
1t Is estimated that Ave months vii
be required for that part Of the trip
and that the party will arrive at Con
6okoro about May /, 1910.
Mrs. Roosevelt Is expected To join
her husband at Khartoum.
How much lettering will be done on
the voyage down the Nile cannot be
told at this time. but at least q month
la allowed for getting from Khartoun,
to Cairo. Plans for side trips from
there to Jerusalem and other points
have not been fully decided upon, but
not more than two weeks will prob
ably be devoted to a look at that In
teresting part of the world.
The president has agreed to deliver
! lectures at Oxford and the Sorbonno
after he returns from Africa In the
spring of 1910 While 1t is not yet ad
mitted, II is almost a certainty that
before returning from Europe Mr.. and
Mrs. Roosevelt will accept some nj
/ the invitations from royalty that will
be Issued the minute they intimate .
willingness to accept any Of them.
There Is a sort Of promise on the
part OF the president and his wife that
they will be back at Oyster Bay early
In the summer Of 1910. but there Ia
nothing certain about the time Of their
arrival there. What he will do other
than write. after he gets back to
Oyster Bay the president himself pro
fesses not to know at this time.
Sir Harry Johnston. the English au
thor and explorer, who Is In this coun
try on a vacation. was the guest OF
President Roosevelt at the White
House last week. Sir Harry has trav
cled extensively In Africa and knows
thoroughly the part Of the country In
which President Roosevelt Is to make
his hunting expedition next year. He
has written books on big game hunt
ing In Africa, and will be able to give
the president valuable information.