Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-07
Presidents Plans for
=. Hunting Trip.
Will Start After the Big Game
H in March.
Many Months to be Spent In the
Uganda Wilderness.

New York, Nov. 6.-From an excel
| lent authority it has been learned that
President Roosevelt plans to leave New
| York on March 13, nine days after the
inauguration. by the North German
Lloyd liner koenig Albert. for Naples,
VIA Gibraltar, where the liner is due on
March p. Besides his son Kermit, he
VIII be accompanied by a professor
from the Smithsonian Institution, and
an official from the Navy Department.
They have not yet been chosen, but
several are under consideration. From
Naples, President Roosevelt and his
party will travel on one of the German
East African steamers to MombaSsa.
via the Suez Canal and Alden, sea
journey of seventeen days, including
stops.
So far 70 arrangements have been
made for Tie six months the party will
spend in Uganda province, between
the coast and Port Florence, a distance
of 5S4 miles. On Lake Victoria NyanZl
the party will embark for Entebbe, in
Central Africa. One thing certain is
that Mr.. Roosevelt will not enter the
Congo territory President Roosevelt
has received an invitation from Mr..
McMilan nephew of the late Senator
James Mcmillan of Detroit, who owns
fifty thousand acres Of forest mountain
and jungle in the Nairobi district of
TGan,ia 10 shoot over his estates and
use the comfortable shooting boxes that
hav" hecI erected in various sections
where big game is to be found. The
President Is scheduled to arrive at
Entehbe early in December where 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 Gondokoro, the frontier
post of the Soudan, some time toward
the end of April 1910 The number of
natives to be employed on that part of
the journey has not yet been settled.
but it is estimated that somewhere
around fifty will be needed. Each man
Will carry on an average a load of fifty
pounds on his head
From Entebbe the distance to be COW
cred on foot and by boat on the rivers
and lakes to khartoum, where it Is eX-
pected that Mrs. Roosevelt will prob
anlv join the party, will be about 5000
miles. The journey from Gondokoro by
steamer will take eleven days and the
vessels leave once a month. From
kharloum the railway journey across
the desert to Wadi-Halfa on he sec
or.1 cataract of the Nile. tax 5 thirty
six hours. and from that n0int there is e
regular steamboat service down to As
souan. on the first cataract. ami Cairo.
4 totul water journey of 900 miles. The
time taken from Wadi-Hal depends
on the length of the stay the party will
make at Aboo Simbul, Phylae. Luxor
and other points of interest on the
banks of the River Nile. The usual
passage for tourists down is about two
weeks.
From the British Government the
President has received a permit to kill
as much game as he likes, but it is
understood that he will go to Africa
more in the interest of science than to
kil' animals for the mere sport of it.
The President will have no difficulty in
keeping in touch with the oute? world.
whether in the British or German East
African protectorates. Telegraph wires
now cover the district in all direc-
tions. An expert who has made the
same journey through Africa three
times from the east coast of the Nile.
says that the climate in the interior
was healthy for white men if they only
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