The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-02-22
BIG TRIP
MIDDLE Of MARCH
COMPLETED ARRANGEMENTS
FOR HIS AFRICAN TRIP.
(By Associated Press.)

States, completed over twenty-five
years of public service, has decided
to take rest and recreation in 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 QUILTED by
1.-THE Smithsonian Institution of Wash
ington he will, with his son, Kermit,
and three American naturalists OF
note-Major Edgar A Mearns, j. Lo-
ring Alden and Edmund Heller
make collection of mammals, birds,
reptiles, insects and botalical speci-
mems of Central Africa, which will
| be deposited in the United States Ma
tional Museum at Washington.
The party leave New York about
the middle of March, going by the
Mediterranean route to Gibraltar and
| Naples. At Naples the members Of
the expedition will board a steamer
of the German East African line tor
Klinidini harbor, Mombasa island.
They will arrive at the East African
port toward the end of. April, pro-
coed by the Uganda railway to Nal
rbi, spend six months there, then
continue by rail to Port Florence,
Lake Victoria Nyanza, making a to-
tai distance of 5S4 miles by rail
The expedition will cross Uganda hy
caravan, and, finally pass down th@
whole length of the Nile. reaching
Khartoum about April, 1910. Much
of the hunting and specimen collect
ing will be done in British East Afri-
ca, where the Uganda railway VII be
used as a means of ready transporta
ton from Nairobi, which will be the
base of supplies.
At Khartoum, it is expected that
the president. and his son will be
Joined by Mrs. Roosevelt, who will
accompany them on their trip
through Europe. The naturalists OF
the party will proceed direct to the
United States from Egypt. Mr..
Roosevelt will probably remain in
Continental Europe and Great Rfi-
tain about one year, having accepted
invitations to deliver the Romanes
Lecture at Oxford university, an adj
dress at the Sorbonne in Paris and
a lecture to the students of the Uni
versity 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 o.
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 exee-
riences while on a 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
timse of an American Hunter In
the latter volume he rfers to the
sport in these words:
From the days of Nimrod to our
own there have been mighty hunters
before the Ltld, and most warliH6
ana masterful races have taken
udly to the chase, as chief among
those rough pastimes which appeal
uaturally to mel. with plenty OF
rel blood in their veins
One might think Mr.. Roosevelt "e'
s'r4s 10 emulate the earlier among
the great :T'.gd-ring nings OF ES'et
and AssyIla whom, he says, hum
the elephant and wild bull, as well
as the lions with which the country
swarmed; and Tiglath-Pileser, the
First, who as overload of Phoen1cia
embarked on the Mediterranean and
there killed a sea monster, presuma-
| bly, a whale-a feat which. MT.
Roosevelt declares, has been paral-
leled by no sport-loving sovereign oil
modern times, save by that stout
hunter the German Kaiscc; although,
I believe, the present English king
ha; slain both elephants and igeis
before he came to the throne"
Speaking of the great hunting
grounds of the VOID. Mr. Roosevelt
says that there renajr only three II
the present eentu.,. south Afr':l Is
the true hunters paradise, in his
opinion. If the happy hunting
grounds are to 0e found anywhere in
this world. says he, they lay between
the Orange and -, Zamhesi. and ey-