The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-04
Will Leave for Naples Nine Days After Inauguration of Taft, Thence Through
 Suez Canal.
TWO OFFICIALS WITH HIM
Hopes to Get Wary Hons and Other Big Game in East Africa The Details of His
 Itinerary.
(New York Times.)

New York Times learned yesterday that President Roosevelt plans to leave New York on March IS, nine days after the Inauguration, by the North German Lloyd liner Koenig AL bert for Naples, via Gibraltar, where the liner is due on March 2b His expressed desire is to get away as soon as possible so ss not to embarrass Mir. Taft in his new office.
 Besides his son Kermit who will take photographs of big game In Af- rica, he will be accompanied by pro- lessor from the Smithsonian institution and an official from the navy depart ment They have not yet been chos- en, but several are under considera- ton. Ono will have a knowledge of medicine. so that when the party leaves the Uganda railroad and plunges Into the unbeaten paths of the eastern African forests members of the expedition may be properly cared for.
 From Naples MT. Roosevelt and his party will travel on one of the Ger man East African steamers in Mom- bassa, via the Suez canal and Aden sea journey of seventeen days, includ- ing stops.
 So far no arrangements have been made for the six months the party will spend In Uganda province, between the coast and Port Florence, a dis tance of 5S4 miles On Lake Victoria Nyanza the party will embark for Entebbe, in Central Africa, One thing certain is that Mir Roosevelt will not enter the Congo territory.
 President Roosevelt has received an invitation from Mir. McMillan, nephew of the late Senator James Me- Milan of Detroit, who owns 50,000 acres of forest, mountain, and jungle in the Nairobi District of Uganda, 10 | shoot over his estates and use the | comfortable shooting boxes that have | been erected in various sections where | big game is to be found.
 The president Is scheduled to arrive l ciL lSlllVbbN tdI " III i''N'iiipNiI Nli'A' l his native porters, hunters, and guides will be waiting to conduct him through Central Africa, exploring | some of the tributaries of the Nile | and eventually landing him at Condo | koro, the frontier post of the Soudan, some time toward the end of April, 1910.
 TIA rtt Idt pf y,at n ha a,,l- | plnl ed on that part of the journey has not yet been settled, but it is esti- mated that somewhere around fifty will be needed Each man will carry on an average a load of fifty pounds on his head.
 While no fixed plan has been made | for the hunting trips, 1t was stated yesterday that the president will not follow the beaten paths of travellers and hunters in the East Africa pro- tectorate, or on any part of his jour- ney in Africa but will strike out on new tracks for himself
 From Entebbe the distance to be rivers and lakes to Khartoum, where 1t is expected that Mrs Roosevelt will probably join the party will be about SO00 miles The journey from Gon- dokow by steamer will take eleven days. and the vessels leave once month.
 From Khartoum the railway jour ney across the desert to Wadi-Halfa, on the second cataract of the Nile, takes thirty-six hours and from that point there is a regular steamboat ser vice down to Assouan on the first cataract and Cairo, total water jour- neY of 300 miles. The time taken from Wadi-Halfa depends on the length of the stay the party will make at Aboo Slmbul, PhIlae Luxor and other points of interest on the banks of the River Nile Tho usual passage for tourists down Is about Two weeks
 From the British government the president has received a permit to kin as much game as he likes, but it Is understood that he will go to Africa more in the interest of science than to kill animals for the mere sport of it, It is probable that he will con fine himself to one specimen of each kind of large and small game, lnclud- Ing Hons, elephants, rhnoceroses, and crocodiles.
 Lions it Is said are the most dlTl- cult to get at in Africa because they nave become wary of the white man and his deadly gun, The kings of the forest can be heard roaring around the camps all night but they take cover and disappear before sunrise,
 The president will have no difficulty , in keeping in touch with the outer world, whether in the British or Ger man East African protectorates. Tel egraph wires now cover the district in all directions, and where the station Is some distance away native runners are employed to take messages At night the natives have a semaphore signal by means Of torches waved from hiltops, which ilas been in use in the orient for thousands of years, and is still reliable.
 An expert who has made the same journey through Africa three times from the east coast to the Nile said yesterday that the climate In the In- terior was healthy for white men if they only took ordinary precautions to safeguard themselves against disease. The country teens with interest for the hunter and naturalist from the time he lands on the East African coast until he reaches Egypt.
 
 PANAMA'S FOURTH OF JULY.
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