Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-23
TELLS OF HIS HUNTS
First InstaIIment of Roose-
veIt's African Series.
BIG GAME IN ABUNDANCE,
Jungle Preserve Described as Like
a Vast Geological Garden.
HAS A LIBRARY WITH HIM
Sixty Pounds of Literature Part of
His OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Ride on Cowcatcher.
BIG GAME IN ABUNDANCE,
HAS A LIBRARY WITH HIM

tODer number or Scr1OnerS Magazine.
| is entitled African Game Trails" ane
will run for year. 1t is announced. It IL
prefaced by a photograph Of the author
In his hunting costume by Edmund Kel
Ter, which has been reproduced in tints
| and is followed by photographs taken b,
Kermit Roosevelt and other members OF
the expedition.
The writer has set down his impressions
of the new region while they were still
fresh He speaks Of the pioneers Of the
British colony and contrasts them with
those he knew in his early days on the
western prairies. He tells of his hunts
and the wild animal life as he catches
glimpses of it on his journey.
His ride up country on the cowcatcher
of Gov. Jackson's special train Is de-
scribed in detail, and he speaks OF the
wonderful sights that were presented to
his eyes.
He thus describes it:
Like a Vast Geological Gafden.
Next morning we were In the game
country and as we sat on the seat over
the cowcatcher 1t was literally like pass
ing through a vast geological garden. In
deed no such railway journey can be
taken on any other line In any other land.
lat one time We passed a herd of. a
dozen or so of great CRATES, cows and
calves. cantering along through the open
woods q couple of hundred yards to the
RICH. of the train. Again, still closer. four
water-buck cows. their big ears thrown
forward, stared at us without moving
until we had passed.
"Hartebeests were everywhere: one
herd was on the track. and when the en-
CINE whistled they bucked and sprang
with ungainly agility and galloped clear
Of the danger. A long-tailed straw-colored
monkey ran from one tree to another.
Huge black ostriches appeared from time
to time.
Once a troop of impalla, close by the
track, took fright, and as the beautiful
creatures fed we saw now one and now
another bound clear over the high bushes.
A herd of zebra clattered across a cutting
Of the line not hundred yards ahead Of
the train; the whistle hurried their prog
ress, but only for moment. and as
we passed they were already turning
round to gaze. The wild creatures were in
their sanctuary, and they knew it.
Went Through Game Preserve.
A large part Of the country thus trav-
ersed by Col. Roosevelt and his party
was the game preserve which the British
government has set aside on the way to
Nairobi, one mile to the north Of the
track and stretching far to the south. or
the policy of thus preserving the game
Col Roosevelt says:
Some Of the settlers have at times
grumbled at this game preserve being
kept Of such size, but surely 1t is one Of
the most valuable possessions the country
could have. The lack Of water in parts
the prevalence in other parts of diseases
harmful to both civilized man and domes-
tic cattle render this great tract Of coun-
try the home Of all homes for the wild
creatures Of the waste.
The protection given these wild crea-
lures is genuine. not nominal; they are
preserved not for the pleasure Of the few.
but for the good Of all who choose to
see this strange and attractive spectacle;
and from this nursey and breeding
ground the overflow keeps up the stock
of game in the adjacent land to the bene-
hit Of the settler to whom the game gives
fresh meat. and to the benefit of the
whole country because of the attraction
1t furnishes to all who desire to visit
veritable happy hunting ground"
One OF the most interesting portions of
velt's account of day after wildebeest.
He tells how he shot large bull which
Kermit rode down and dispatched after
a run Of six or eight miles. and how he
then disabled a large cow Col. Roose-
welt did not, however, rely entirely on
the chase for amusement in his holiday.
He has taken with him a small travelling
library. OF this he says:
His "Pigskin Library.
There was one other bit of impede
menta. less usual for Africa travel. but
joyment even on a hunting trip. II it is to
be of any length. This was the 'pigsKin
library SO called because most of the
books were bound in pigskin. They were
carried In a light aluminium and oilcloth
case, which, with Its contents, weighed
little less than sixty pounds, making a
load for one porter.
Including few volumes carried In the
various bags. SO that 1 might be sure al
ways to have one with me, and 'Gregor-
ovius,' read on the voyage outward. the
list was as printed below. 1t represents,
in part, Kermit's taste, in part mine; and,
l need hardly say, 1t also represents In no
way all the books we most care for, but
merely those which. for one reason or an
other, we thought we should like to take
on this particular trip:
Mr. Roosevelt then appends the fol-
lowing list
Borrow--"Bible of SPAIN" "Zingali."
"Lavengro." wild Wales THE Ro-
many Rye"
Shakespeare.
Spenser-"Faerie Queen"
Mahan-"sea Power
Homer-'Iliad," Odyssey"
La Chanson de Observation-Disclosures
He'd
Carlyle-"Frederick the Great
Shelley-Poems.
Bacon-Essays.
Lowell-Literary essays, 'Biglow
Papers,"
Emerson-Poems.
Longfellow.
Tennyson.
Poe-Tales, poems.
Keats.
Milton-"Paradise Lost" Books I and
I'D.
Dante-"Inferno" (Carlyle's transla-
tom.
Holmes-"Autocrat." over the Tea
cups
Bret Harte-Poems. Tales of the Areo-
nauts." Luck of Roaring Camp"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Crothers-"Gentle Reader
Mark wain-"Huckleberry Finn.
Tom Sawyer
Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress"
Euripides (Murray's translation) Hip
polytus."
The Observation-Disclosures"
Observation-Disclosures
scott-'Legend of Montrose.' Guy
Mannering." 'Waverley," Rob Roy"
"Antiquary."
Cooper-"Pilot." Two Admirals.'
Froissart.
Percy's Reliques.
Thackeray's Vanity Fair" and Pen.
Dennis
Dickens-"Mutual Friend" "Pickwick. -
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