The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-02-26
R00SEvELT'S
AFRICAN TRIP
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PLANS
FOR THE PRESIDENTS TWO
YEARS TRIP ABROAD.
WILL LEAVE NEW YORK ABOUT
MIDDLE OF MARCH FOR THE
JUNGLES OF AFRICA.

washington, rep. 22.-VneOdOre
Roosevelt, fifty years of age, having
on March 4, with his retirement as
twenty-sixth president of the United
States, completed over twenty-five
years of public service, has decided
to take rest and recreation in a two
years trip abroad, half of which will
be spent in Africa under the British
flag as faunal naturalist and the
other half in Europe, visiting at least
three of the big capitals. At the
head of a scientific expedition out
fitted by the Smithsonian Institu-
ton, he will, with his son, Kermit,
and three American naturalists of
note-Major Edgar A. Mearns, j.
Loring Alden and Edmund Heller
make a collection of mammals, birds,
reptiles, insects and botanical speci-
mems of Central Africa, which will
be deposited in the United States
National Museum at Washington.
The party leave New York City
about the middle of March, going
by the Mediterranean route to Gil
bralter and Naples. At Naples the
members of the expedition will board
a steamer of the German East Afri-
can line for Kilindini harbor, Moba-
sa Island. They will arrive at the
East African port toward the end Of
April, proceed by the Uganda railway
to Nairoba, spend six months there,
then continue by rail to Port Flor
ence, Lake Victoria Nyanza, making
total distance of 54S miles by rail.
The expedition will cross Uganda by
caravan, and, finally pass down the
whole length of the Nile, reaching
Khartoum. about April, 1910. Much
of the hunting and specimen collect
ing will be done in British East At
RIGA, where the Uganda railway will
be used as means of ready trans
portation from Nairobi, which will
be the base of supplies.
At Khartoum, it is expected, the
President and his son will be joined
by Mrs. Roosevelt, who will accom-
pany them on their trip to Europe.
The naturalists of the party will
proceed direct to the United States
from Egypt. Mr. Roosevelt will
probably remain in continental Eu-
rope and Great Britain about one
year, having accepted to deliver the
Romanes Lecture at Oxford Univer-
sity, an address at the Sorbonne in
Paris and lecture before the stu
dents of the University of Berlin.
Long has it been the desire of Mr..
Roosevelt to make a hunting tour
into the heart of Africa. He has
made numerous trips in search of
big game in every part of the United
States where such animals make their
abode. For years he has been an
ardent hunter and writer of hunt
ing stories. Some of his books on
the subject are Hunting Trips of
Ranchman," written from his ex-
periences while on North Dakota
ranch, when he spent two years rails
ing cattle; Ranch Life and Hunting
Trail" "The Wilderness Hunter"
1.-The Deer Family" Outdoor Pas
times of an American Hunter"
In travelling abroad Mr.. Roosevelt
will not make any such tour as did
Gen. Grant after retiring from the
presidency. Gen. Grant was received
In state by emperors and kings
wherever he went in his tour around
the world. He was feted as no other
American ever has been. Mr.. Roose-
welt will avoid all that, it being his
desire to travel as plain citizen,
and spending good part of his time
in the pursuit of game; he will put
himself out of the way of social en-
tertainment.
1t is Mr.. Roosevelt's desire that his
African hunting expedition will not
be looked upon as one with sport as
a main object. A limited number of
specimens of mammals and birds
will be killed for the use of the Uni
ted States National Museum. Other
killing will be confined to the limit
Of the necessary food supply of the
camp. On his trip Mr.. Roosevelt
hopes to secure for scientific pur-
poses, two adult specimens, one of
each sex, and specimen of their
young, of animals he is likely to meet
on the dark continent. For the or
binary needs of the museum the
president and the naturalsts and di-
rector of the Smithsonian Institu-
ton, whom he has consulted, think
these will be sufficient, but whether
they are sufficient or not these are
all he has in mind to kill; no matter
how plentiful the game may be-
1t is the known wish Of the presi-
dent that the expedition into Afr-
ca be made with the privacy that
marks or rather should mark, ally
other scientific expedition. Ny
Roosevelt wants an outing n
chance to do moderate amou
shooting with first view o. 5et
results that will be of some beae,
At to science. While a number
the American newspapers would HE
to: send correspondents with MIR
Roosevelt, it is needless to say tina.
no newspaper representatives will.
accompany the party.
Upon reaching Kilindini, April 81,
the party will spend short time in
Mombasa, and then proceed bv train
on the Uganda railway to Nairobi,
tie capital of Ukamba province and