The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-07-17
A WONDERFUL PILGRIMAGE
Death from Fever. Poison and An
mails, or Captivity In the Jungle
Lurk. But IN the End the
Finest hunting IN World.

year. Will decreas. the presidential
savings some $50 u.o 20 $4,000 at a
low estimate, bu, .nasmuch as MIR.
/ Roosevelt already bias u,en offered
more than ten tims- that amount for
his story Of the trp 20 be- written
upon his return. it isn't worrying the
family banker
What is concerning all the RDose.
Welt family and -H. close friends
Of the president may Dee summed up
as things that might happen on that
trip It is no sma. matter thi, 2O..
900 miles journey 20 the widest sec.
ton Of the world. where big game is
as popuiOus as it has come 10 be-
scarce IN the won west u isn't 50
much the lions. elephants and their
associates that are being feared. al
though the element OF danger they
always present contains the essential
zest of hunting with any true sports.
man But there are many other enc.
mics Of human life which the pres.
,dent will have 70 encounter and sub
due
The journey 20 r.r east coast ol
Africa will be- one OF the most won
derful pilgrimages "a man Of the west
"ru world might take. The president
will pass through seas and straits
which alone could have washed away
the tones Of history they have seen
written. He will come into contact
with customs and people by far the
most interesting Boo the world. and
! finally. as sort OF guerdon for his
wandering the traveller Will reach
Zanzibar "a place which merits its
name Paradse).
II has been called the most inter
esting fifteen square miles in the
world aud appears 10 merit the de
/ scrIpiiou. Ia its scant area the fot-
sam and jctsam Of the eastern world
! has gathered II contains, shoulder
/ TO shoulder. In lis Heterogeneous people
/ aud life. the elements OF the finest
| culture. the deepest ignorance, moral
/ ity, degencacv vice and virtue, more
/ fautastically interviewer into the life
Of the place than anywhere else in
all the world
Here the president viii get his sup.
| plies. guides, servants. Ibrters and
other blacks who will be his com
I panlon on the hunt. From Zanzibar
| he goes 10 the chief city Of English
East Africa, on the border Of Ger
man Africa and from there plunges
| into the vast silent, disease breeding
| iuuglcs where white man goes with
| the assurance that death, multiform,
pcstilcnt and horrible, turks In every
| thicket and stream and tree: place
/ where the chances OF living are re-
/ duccd to the ultimate natural min
imum
Preceded by his blacks. and fol
the rather imposing luggage Of the
expedition, and In bad weather. the
head Of the expedition in a hammock
| The president will enter a world vast
ly different from pnythmg he has
/ ever seen
In the great masmatlc iungles
whore every step Of the road for many
/ miles Will have 10 be along virgin
paths cut through the often poisonous
brush. death waits. invisible and intru
| sivc for the bold hunter. me mias
mi may give him fever that will
| kill him In eight hours or leave him
/ suffering the most horrible Of tortures
Iu a land Of torture He may recover
only to De- graspod again by the ter
rors Of hls fever every year or two
the balance of his life, or ne may
escape entirely
The president viii not have pre-
ccd"i far before rebellion viii break
out In his train This kind, however.
rs more easily settled than miners
strikes. aud an may be- well
Then ho may be- oycrtaken aud cap
mrcd by native prince, who will
require beads. wire. brass and the like
to keep him from deyouriug his dis
tinguishcd guest to Cutting his appe.
lite Upon finding that his visitor Is
the late head Of great government,
rhe chief viii even become solicitous.
send around few buckets Of stinking
native beer, even some pellets of
bhang. that the precedent may dream
the dream Of the hashish eater. and
as last mark Of courtesy demand