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welt and which bore the inscrip-
ton:
Good luck and good bye.
Taft"
Perilous Journey.
The ex-president's hunting trip
is one of the most spectacular
events in the career of q man
whose life has seen many startling
events, a man who has seeped
himself from boyhood in strong,
unusual blood-stirring sensations.
That a man who has been sitting
in, cushioned chairs directing leg
islative diplomatic and executive
conduct for a nation should throw
off the protection which civiliza-
ton and high station afford and
throw himself into the heart of
the dark continent is as startling
as 1t is typical of the man.
He will meet the rhinoceros,
the most fierce and dangerous ami
NAL in existence. d.
In the African lion, which, when
aroused, will fight till shot to
pieces, he will encounter foe
beside which hostile newspapers
and warning senator's will be as
nothing.
The ex-president can invoke no
libel suits nor claim any privi-
leges against the elephant, which
sweeps all before it, or the tropi-
cal snake, which poisons by its
very breath. No official act can
serve him as defense against the
deadly African fever, which kills
so per cent of the white popu1a-
ton, the disease which carried off
Livingstone, the explorer.
It will be the man Roosevelt,
not the president, who must meet
the dangers Of darkest Africa. His
own good health, his courage,
quick eye, GOODNESS, resourceful-
ness-these are the things he
must depend on.
And Theo. Roosevelt is a man
now past middle age. Yet he
calls his African trip a vacation.
From Naples, Roosevelt will go
by a German-African steamer
through the Suez canal to Mann
hasa, on the east African coast.
From Mombasa he will be car
ried to the Nairobi, 400 miles in
land, by one of the most interest
ing railroads In the world-two
|streaks of rusty rails, which pene-
|trate through swamps and deserts
and wildernesses and across tropi-
cal lakes and rivers.
At Nairobi the ex-president will
make camp for six months, making
his headquarters at first at the At
rican home of VIM. N. Mcmillan,
Ian American millionaire OF st.
Louis and London, who has built q
magnificent villa in the heart Of
the jungle.
From Nairobi Roosevelt will
proceed to Port Florence on Lake
Victoria Nyanzi, stopping to make
Ian ascent of~Mt. Kenia, ~ miles
north Of the lake, then making his
way gradually through Uganda
|protectorate to the Nile river. He
will be met at Khartoum ON the
Nile by Mrs. Roosevelt, who will
accompany him through Europe.
The former presidents tour will
take about two years, the latter
year to be spent ON the European
continent. He will lecture at OK
ford and In French and German
colleges. IS
One aim of Roosevelt on his trip
will be to add to the collection Of
the Smithsonian museum In WASH
ington specimen of both sexes OF
the large animals OF Africa.
Roosevelt has insisted from the
| first that his aim was scientific,
land that his hunting trip was not
for the sake OF killing.
II admit that I love . little
hunting" he wrote to q friend
while president. But he wrote to
ISecrotary Walcott Of the Smith
|sonian institution: II cannot ~
ford to pay the expenses or field
'naturalist and . field taxidornht.