The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
GREAT WELCOME
FOR ROOSEVELT,
Prominent Men to Greet Fin on
His African Trip.
ARAB RULER INTERESTED,

Youthful Sultan Of Zanzibar Anxious
to Meet Former President-Governor
James sadIer Will Also Entertain
the Hunting Party From America.
When I arrived in British East Africa
last spring l heard a great deal on every
side about the visit of our former Presi-
dent, Theodore Roosevelt, to the hunt
ing grounds Of big game. Whether it was
the Arab Sultan of Zanzibar, the Lewali
of Mombasa, the English rulers, the
German officers or the French colonists,
everybody wanted to show their deep
appreciation Of MI. Roosevelt.
A man who will wait with intense
interest the guests arrival will be the
hereditary Arab ruler of all East Africa,
young Ali bin Hamoud, the present
Sultan of Zanzibar. I know the Sultan
well. When the American Consul pre-
sented me to him in the palace in the
summer Of 1908 his first words were:
II am always glad to meet Americans.
Your big country is the one l most de-
sire to see. Your brilliant President is
coming to East Africa, and he will have
the warmest welcome ever given to a
visitor In my domains. You see. we
Arabs have the same sense of honor
and high worth that you English-speak-
ing people have. 1t would be the great
est pleasure in the world for me to re-
ceive Mr.. Roosevelt and to visit
America" So spoke the Sultan Of Fan
zibar, a young man educated at Elton.
now twenty-five years of age, dressed
like an English gentleman, and speak
ing the language of Shakespeare with
out an accent.
On the main land at Mombasa. the
Arab ruler is called the Lewali. He is
a descendant of a race of kings. He
will be on the reception committee at
Mombasa. For a long time his Arab
ancestors fought the Arabs of Zanzibar,
but at last Zanzibar was victorious, and
the Lewali of Mombasa is now a finely
educated young man, is a subject of
the Sultan and under the Protectorate
OF England. Great Britain rents the
shore land for ten miles inland from the
Sultan Of Zanzibar for SS5, 900 a year.
The hinterland is hers by right of ocou-
patton, and a territory of 4OO, 900 square
miles, containing 5000, 900 blacks and
5000 whites, makes up what is called the
East African Pro~tectorate. 1t is here
and in Uganda, another territory at the
head waters Of the Nile, that the most
OF the hunting is to be done. The two
side trips of most Importance are the
n projected into the Congo in search
of white %rhinoceri, and the one toward
Lake Rudolph on the Abyssinian border.
There is also a fine trip to the Kiliman-
jaro and German East Africa in conteln-
plation.
Now, one of the men who will be prom
inent in the entertainment Of the Roose-
welt party is Gov. Sir james Sadler of
the East African Protectorate, who has
a fine bungalow at Mombasa and n at
Nalrobi, 337 miles in the interior, at an
elevation of $500 feet. Sir James is q
man of open heart and kindly DISPOSE
ton. He has been undeviatingly in
favor of giving the blacks their own
land and all their rights. Some of the
colonists think that Gov. Sadler is kind
to the natives and the Hindus at the
expense of the white men. He expelled
the Hon. Mr.. Bailey and Lord Della
mere from the legislative assembly at
Nairobi last year because those gentle
men were actively working against the
game preserves and the reserves of land
for the Masei and other tribes.
Mr.. Bailey and Lord Delamere are
both rich men and very popular, and
they will unquestionably be among the
British colonists to welcome and greet
the big man after big game. l under
that Gov. Sadler is going to have
Mr.. Roosevelt as his guest in the famous
bungalow, or Government House,
which looks off from the rocks of Nom
hasa out upon the Indian Ocean, on a
view unparalleled anywhere in East
Africa.
Mr.. Currie, manager of the Uganda
Railway, and Mr.. Sweeney, his as
sistant, are both good, progressive
They told me that all
conveniences that could conduce to
health and comfort of the visitors
on the railway line of their Journey
"OuAN w PuO az VAAO COu1111duU OF C0c |
popular American hunter. They have
actually made improvements in their
stock and introduced new ice
plants to please and help their dis
visitor. This Uganda Rail-
way, finished in 1902, runs from Nom
hasa to Lake Victoria, 5S4 miles, and
along the greater part of it the game is
protected on n side of the track. On
The right hand side of the track hunters
nay shoot, and it is here that Mr.. Currie
md the railway officials will make all
arrangements for trains to stop; and
,ars are to be equipped with every
hing that can make the hunt at this
2oint an assured pleasure and success.
There are hundreds and thousands of
Wild game in sight of the railway car
windows.
The party will likely proceed directly
Nairobi, the capital of British East