Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-03-11
WILL START ON MARCH %
Roosevelt and Party Will Start For the
African Ju1sleS on That Date

Ex-President Roosevelt and those
who are to accompany him on his hunt
ing trip through the jungles of Africa,
Will sail from New York on Tuesday,
the 23rd instant. Mr.. Roosevelt's plan
to travel 5000 miles in the recesses of
Africa and Egypt has excited the com
ment and expectation of two continents.
The undertaking, no matter what the
result may be, is stupendous. The cost
OF the equipment of those who make up
the party will be about 5000 each.
-Four types of guns have been provided
for the hunt. For the various game
that will be attacked there must be va
rlous weapons. For the elephant there
Is weapon that will fire a slug over a
half inch thick and two inches long. The
most deadly gun carries a bullet weigh
ing 200 grains. 1t has a muzzle velocity
OF 1000 feet second, striking blow
of 1000 pounds. This is an emergency
weapon and the one Mr.. Roosevelt will
have placed in his hands when he meets
his first menscing game.
The itinerary proper begins at Ma
pies, and traverses historical ground.
1t reaches into dark and mysterious
places that are the habitat of the spe-
cies mentioned in holy writ. There are
depths where the atmosphere is foul
with poisonous miasma and forests that
breed insects that are venomous.
According to the present plans of the
Roosevelt party, about six months will
be spent 10 the fastnesses of Uganda.
That's where the dwarf Negritos shoot
arrows STEPPED in poison at any who
invade their country.
The amount of game which Mr..
Roosevelt will be permitted to kill is
very limited, and is as follows: Two
male elephants, two rhinoceroses, ten
hippopotamuses, twenty-one antelopes
of various species, two earth hogs, two
earth wolves, ten chevrotains, two CO.
iooi or other fur coated monkeys, two
msrabou storks, two aigrets, two os-
triches and one chimpanzee. In addi-
tion, to these he may slay without IL
cense, lions, honesses, male cape buff
faloes, leopRrds, crocodiles, reptiles and
any birds except vultures. He is pro-
hibited from killing zebras, giraffes,
female or young elephants or Johnston's
okapi. Mr. Roosevelt, however, hopes
to bring back alive a specimen of the
latter animal, for, in spite of flaming
circus posters, not one of this type has
ever been seen outside of the wiIds of
Africa
In his Egyptian hunt the ex-
president will be confronted at everv
turn with new conditions and situations.
When in the west he sat every broncho
that he mounted. He was always at
home in the saddle. In the expedition
in the equatorial belt he will frequently
mount the trained elephant when he
hits the trail of the behemoth in its lair.
He will also before the finish of the ex-
pedition have to perch on the drome-
dairy. This will occur when he reaches
the dreamy atmosphere of lotus land.
Unless the present program is changed
Mr.. Roosevelt will, having traversed
the heart of the British protectorate
of Uganda, continue northward to Con
dokora, across the headwaters of the
Nile, the outpost of British Sudan. At
this point Mrs. Roosevelt will Join her
husband in a journey down the Nile,
and will return with him to the United
States.