Evening star., 1909-06-27
On the Roosevelt Hunting Ground
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Hoima to the Lake Albert Edward port of
Butaba is over such rough going that 1t must
be done on foot good two days march. At
Butaba he will take the tiny government
launch kenia, on which, for passengers unable
to crowd into the engineer cabin, tent IS
pitched on deck. Steamlng from dawn to dark
and tying up over night, the kena covers the
three hundred odd miles down lake and Nile
to Minute in five days. From Minute to Con
dokoro, the head of Upper Nile navigation, the
river falls so rapidly that the entire one hundred
and thirty intervening miles must be done
afoot, nine DAYS march. From Gondokoro
one reaches Khartum by steamer in nine days,
and then three days more by rail lands one IN
Cairo.
Thus the entire distance from Entebbe to
Cairo may be covered in thrtyeight days, but
it is not likely that Mr.. Roosevelt will press
straight through without stop. Immediately
north of Gondokoro there is capital shooting,
including one or two species he will not ind IN
British East Africa. while up the Sobat, large
western tributary entering the Nile midway
between Gondokoro and khartum. there IS
probably the best open country elephant shoot
ing remaining in all Africa. and there un-
derstand, Mr.. Cunninghame is likely to take
him for finish of his African sport on royal
game.
Lions a Matter of Luck
FRIDAY, the twenty-sixth, we left Nairobi in
Mr.. McMillan's special car for Mombasa, to
which he was returning to meet Mrs. Mcmillan,
who was due to arrive there from India on the
thirty-first.
On Sunday the Melbourne, northbound and
the Oxus southbound both of the Gle Messa-
geries Mar1tlmes, arrived Oft k1lndlnl, the
western and principal harbor of MombaSa but
since the former had the bad luck to run aground
in the narrow channel entrance and the latter
lay by to help her, it was not until Monday that
both were able to drop anchor in the harbor.
The Oxus brought Sir Alfred Pease, Lady
Pease and their daughter. While we were at
breakfast at the Grand Hotel Sir Alfred came
in and we were introduced. A tall, spare,
tive man of about fifty, the Hills tell me he Is
as keen for veldt sport any voungster. He
and his family were hurrying up country by the
next train to hasten the completion and furnish
ing of kitanga.
Asked if he felt sure of getting Mr. Roosevelt
his lion Sir Alfred replied. well, one never can
tell you know. just depends on a mans luck.
Last year during my eight weeks stay at Ihekl
l personally saw. all told. twenty-seven lion,
and vet for the three weeks of the same period
nv friend Sir Edmund Loder spent with me
there. after he had been out three months on
safari without getting or even seeing lion, we
failed entirely to show him one
The Taking of Ryall
YES, indeed it is all just matter of luck. is
hon shooting; as few could SO emphatically
prove my friend the Cavaliere A. PARENT,
shipmate who now sits beside me at table as
write. Many have read but probably few have
credited the story of lion taking man from
carriage of the Uganda Railway. And yet it is
true in every detail. Cavaliere PARENT was one
of the three men in the compartment in which
the man was killed and from which he was car
ried by the invader. Asked few minutes ago
to refresh my memory of the details of the in
cident. he replied:
"Ah my Cod but can smell the stencil of
that lion yet; for lay beneath him in the