The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-19
RO0SEYELY'S TRIP
His Coming to Africa Is Now
Awaited With Inter.
est.
NATIVES ARE ExPECTANT
Big Game Hunting In the soudah-
About Lake Victoria ana
In Uganda.

Frank G. Carpenter q wen known
writer In African subjects mas con-
tributed the following interesting q.
ticle to the Birmingham Age-Heraio'
| have received several letters ask
ing as to the presidents big game hunt
IN Africa. / have heard oft here ana
there ali the way down the east coas.
of the continent. The officials ana
sportsmen are talking about II, ana
ell are holding out their hands to we--
come the Nlmrod of the white house.
| got the first ntimation OF the ptesl-
dents plans, now more than q year
ago. while was travelling In the
Sudan. They were being discussed py
German baron and a British colonel
be, aging to the Indian service as we
were crossing the Nubian dese:t to-
gether. The baron and the colonel
were on their way up the Blue Nile to
shoot lions on the border OF Abyss'nia
and they believed that the presii Int
might find excellent sport there.
While at Khartum / had talk with
the sirdar or governor general. VINO
was also commandment chief OF he
troops of the Sudan, and learned tnat
he would be glad to have our presi-
dent sample the big game OF the
Anglo Egyptian possessions. When l
arrived In British East Africa few
months later was told that the presi-
dent would surely come there ard
heard the same story in German Las,
Africa, both at Mwanza on Lake VIC
toria and at Oar es Salaam below
ZANZIBAR. The German officials can as
sure Mr.. Roosevelt good bi; of
CRATES, hppopotami and elephants
and the same Is true of British Cen
trail Africa and northwestern
Rhodesia. Indeed the presidents COM
ing seems to have been anticipated tor
some months and the officials and
sportsmen are awaiting his advent and
to see him change his coat of arrs
firm the Teddy Bear to the TEDDY
Lion Teddy Elephant or Teddy
Hippopotamus."
Big Game In the Sudan.
The general opinion is that me
president vii leave New York for
Gibraltar and Naples and chat he will
there take one of the German East
African steamers and go don to NOM
hasa. beginning his hunting expedition
in British East Africa. This can be
easily and comfortably done. There
are steamers every week nn1 Tie trip
to Mombasa will take les, .!ia, a
north. The fare should say would
b. about 5000.
A far better trip, however, will be to
30 to Egypt and up the Nile into the
Sudan. Alexandria can be reached at
cost OF $3.50 in a little oves two
weeks, and another four or dive days
w'l put the presidential party In
khsrtum ready to take steamer up
tn. Blue Nile to the borders OF -Abys-
sinia They may even extend their
travels into that country, and If SO the
presidents friend, King Menelik, will
be glad to send native soldiers, hunt
ers and porters to aid In the chase.
For ordinary persons the license to
shoot big game in the Sudan costs
5000, but the freedom Of the country
will probably be awarded to our presi-
dent, and he will be allowed to shoot
without limit'such birds and animals as
are not on the prohibited list The
laws Of the Sudan provide that no one
may capture or kill giraffes, zebras
ostriches, wild asses or rhinoceroses
The holder of 5000 license can kill
two elephants, two Glands, two kudus
four buffaloes, four hippopotami and
about 30 of the various kinds Of
gazelles and antelopes In Abyssinis
there are no restrictions on shooting
,,I ~ N I'D r.
where any number of hippopotam
may be captured or killed. In addi'
ton to big game there are in the up
per large numbers of birds. and also
wild sheep and small antelopes, sc
that the hunting Is practically unlim
tied.
In case the president goes there hi
will probably charter special steam
er at khartum and live upon 1t during
the intervals of the chase.
Hunting In Uganda.
Returning to Khartum the presiden
or he can outfit at Khartum, and TAXI
little steamer on the White Nile fol
Gondokoro, more than 1000 miles VI
the river, and thence on via Ugandt
into British East Africa. The trip b!
way of the Red sea will take him be
tween two and three weeks, and thu
Uganda journey will be thrice as long
The latter trip, however, Is by fal
the better, as he will have a chance tt
shoot big game all the way A
Gondokoro he will be In a, countr,
tt,u nj i'm, nt oy,ri ~,
crocodiles, and little farther on Will
strike rhnos, elephants lions and al
sorts of wild beasts. He should writ
in advance to the authorities of Ugan
da for licenses and permission to hun
within the limits of that protectorate
and they will undoubtedly send sol
diers to meet him on the border, Will
the Sidar Of the Sudan will give hin
an escort and all assistance on the up
per White Nile. Leaving the ship a
Gondokoro he will have to go OF
mules or on foot to Nimui, a marcl
of onl va few days, and there he vii
get small boats which will take him t
Lake Albert, in the Uganda protec
torate. Ii he wishes, he can be met a
Lake Albert by jinrikishas from En-
tebbe; and a couple of weeks will Civ
him time for q leisurely run throug
the protectorate with chance shots a
all sorts Of big game.
He will see chimpanzees an
colobus monkeys and balloons of al
sorts On the way are great herd
of zebras, wild buffaloes and nearl
every known type of African ante
lopes, There are wild asses like thos
of Nubia and three-horned and five
horned CRATES. Sir Henry Johnsto
claims that there are okani In wester