Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-04-21
BRITISH OFFICIAL
OFFERS PROTECTION
KING Edward Personally Instructed
Acting Governor to Show
Every Consider.
alton to the
Traveller.

Mombasa. British East Africa.
Aprll 2l.-The steamer Admiral with
Roosevelt and party on board was
sighted Off this port this morning
The steamer Admiral arrives at
Mombasa on schedule time and Roos-
evelt will land today in Africa to
begin his hunting and collecting ex-
petition north to Egypt. Roosevelt
VIII be welcomed at Mombasa by
Acting Governor Jackson, who has
received special instruction from
King Edward to show every consid-
Grafton to the traveller. The Roosevelt
party will leave Mombasa tomorrow
for the ranch OF Sir Alfred Pease-
where the start on the hunt will be
made.
At Mombasa Roosevelt will see a
town that was founded only seven
years after Columbus discovered Am
erica. Portuguese explorers found the
natural harbor and founded "A fort
there in 1905. The town now has a
population of 20,OOO--one-tenth E,l-
ropean-is the chief city of British
Fast Africa, and is important as a
,shippinS 'p06igs,Na seat Of governmert,
and British coaling station.
The rainy season is about over now
and a bright sun holds out its prom
Use to the visitors.
Colonel Roosevelt, Ii is announced
will stop only long enough to see that
all his supplies are ready to ship.
then start by rail for Nairobi, 500
miles into the interior He will stop
for day at Muchantos, to visit sir
Alfred Pease, who hunted with him
in America. There Col. JAS. H. Sad
Ter, governor of British East Africa,
will meet him.
From the Pease ranch, the party
goes on to Nairobi, which will be
headquarters until fall. VIM. n. Nc
MILAN, American millionaire, who
will entertain the party for the first
two months, has his place about tnir-
ty miles from Nairobi.
In this journey from MomDasa to
Nairobi-about 500 miles-Colonel
Roosevelt and his party will travel
over one of the most interesting rail-
roads in the world. The Uganda rail-
road is one connecting link for the
Cape-to- Cairo railroad dreamed of by
Cecil Rhodes and British statesmen.
II is also an unexampled combination
of civilization and savagery.
The coaches are modern. well
equipped, electric lighted. cool com
Portable. meal is served which no
American hotel or Pullman nead
apologize for. Telegraph lines run
alongside the tracks.
But civilization stops at the rail-
farIf Of H.
window--or from the COW catcher. as
Winston Churchill saw It on re-
cent trip, and which Roosevelt may
imitate-one may see lions and hy-
enas and an occasional giraffe or
rhinoceros
The stay at the Ju-Ja ranch will be
the pleasantest part OF the whole
trip. This is McMnlan's wonderful
place located between the Ju and
the ia rivers. bit Of civilization
transported bodily into the jungle.
The Mcmillan home, built Of ashes
tos and steel, is lighted and heated
by its own electric plant has a fine
cuisine and is furnished like Paris
garden They keep open house there
for hunters all the year round, aud
many servants look after the place
and its guests.
The preserve includes 10000 acres
and is fenced in heavy netting. II
is the best hunting spot in the world,
From Nairobi the real hunting will
begin. There win be trips in every
direction from there, including one 10
ascend the 1S,0O0-foot slope of Mt.
Kenia 35 miles north Of the city The
hunters will make several trips over
Lake Victoria Nyanzi.
In October, about the beginning of
the fan rainy season. the ex-president
VIII pack up traps and start by cara
van across Uganda. By January,
1910. ne hopes To reach the White
Nile. from which place he Will cruise
l,isurely down to Khartoum, where
Mrs Roosevelt will meet him for the
trim through Europe