The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22

Nv ! 10 Norfolk hotel for my baggage, the
M largest and best looking safan that haS
ever seen passed l was very much inter
ested to know to whom it belonged, and was told
that 1t the Roosevelt safari going to Capite
plains When got back to the station with my bag
I met Captain Cunninghame who Colonel Roose-
vets white hunter and guide; Mr. McMlen whose
guest he to be- and Colonel Harrison, the great
elephant hunter and the discoverer of the pigmies
of Africa, who were going to Mombasa to meet him.
The next evening had big dinner for Colonel
Roosevelt at the Mombasa club which Governor
Jackson Selous Colonel Harrison Kermit Roosevelt,
the scientists OF the exposition the captain of the
English man OF war, the German consul, Doctor Red
ford, Captain Donald, Ward Fawcas, Cole, Doctor
Seaman myself and others were present
Colonel Roosevelt appeared surprised at finding
IN Mombasa and reminisced over college days
a Harvard and athletics when we were there 80
years ago ! introduced Colonel Roosevelt to a very
mild hammered settler named Fawcas, as a man who
had killed 10 lions, whereupon the colonel sad-
We'll, if I kill lion and one elephant 1 will
be satisfied"
I predicted he would kill Is lions and would see
$4,000 head OF game and am anxious to see if my
predictions will come out
I feel that the estimate of the number of game is
probably less than half of what he will see but so
far lions are concerned, with the men and ponies
he has with him he shoot Is if he wants to
Lions considered vermin East Africa and there
is no limit to the number may shoot whereas a
hunter IS limited to two of number of other animals
So far elephants concerned Uganda is
great elephant country and Colonel Roosevelt told
he had permission TO shoot in the Congo, which
is the greatest of all elephant countries so that he
will be able to get many good tuskers he wants
He will also be in good buffalo and rhinoceros
country. He has the best caravan that ever left
Nairobi the best white hunter, the best ponies and
he kaa- I0<1Se
be in fine health and full of energy He complained
of being overweight but he will easily go down to
training weight after hunting and trapping for few
weeks under the sun of the equator.
/ have heard that numerous papers have asserted
that it very dangerous for him to travel in Africa
and that he might contract some serious disease
Colonel Roosevelt is, however, in fine condition and
stands danger of being injured by animals
than by automobiles in this city or Paris. He has
the army surgeon who is best posted on tropical dis
with him. and who will that the drinking
water is boiled and that preventive medicine is given
when deemed necessary He will therefore come out
of the jungle in much better condition than he
went in, and he was looking in perfect health when
left him in Mombasa
IN THE REAL JUNGLE
One is often asked, what is jungle?t Let one
imagine IS 80 feet high between them bushes
to IS feet high of the densest variety below these
ferns and thorn bushes, called "waitabit;" vines
of various sizes from one-quarter TO and half
inches in diameter INTERVENING among these and bind
ing them all together. A jungle low land would
be the banks of the river and would also have
tall reeds papyrus, besides the trees, bushes and
vines. Papyrus IS thick rod to 10 feet high with
a large tuft the top. Elephant grass is very
dense, thick grass coarse, strong and often 10 feet
high, It is in some places almost impossible to walk
through, as II IS often over ones head.
In Africa the animals live in different regions al
though those living the districts drink in the
same pools and streams. The larger animals do not
interfere with another, but the carnivorous often
ICED the herbivorous They usually, however, do
not trouble the herbivorous until they go out for
their meal at night AS hunter is only allowed to
shoot two rhnoceroses, two elephants and one
buffalo, and has desire kill more, the hunting is
principally for other game-that is, the antelope and
gazelles
The animals most numerous in Africa in the Mai
robi section the kangaroo hartebeest the ZEBRA
the Grant and Thompson gazelles the empaa and the
waterbuck In shooting these animals the hunter
not only has the sport of stalking and shooting but
also obtains the meat for camp. The Grant and
Thompson gazelles and the empala very good
eating and their preferred by hunters, where
as the porters are most fond of zebra meat
On going out in the morning and seeing hundreds
of head of game one would imagine that it would be