The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-24
VARYING
WILL GREET ROOsEvELTs EYE
 IN AFRICA.
Mixture of Cultivated Lands and Jun. gle-Fearful Memories Cluster About Tsavo River--Head-
 quarters at Nairobi.

New York Letter.
 British East Africa--that part of the Dark Continent In which former President Roosevelt with the Smith sonian African Expedition will hunt for wild animals in the interest of science for the next six months before pushing northward to the Mediterran- can tidewater--take on It's greatest charm with the coming of spring and will tender a rare tropical welcome when the party disembarks in the lat ter part of April.
 The Roosevelt party will make its way through a country wonderful in its moods and phases, a strange com mingling of widest jungle and a strip of modern civilizatlon-the Uganda Railway. It is along the line ofsthis railroad, which penetrates the jungle, plains and mountains, that Mir. Roose welt and his party will seek the game of the region for specimens for the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. His route has not been definitely de- pIentifully, it shifts constantly. chang ing its locality because of drouth or scarcity of food. Enough has been learned of Mir. Roosevelt's itinerary in the African wilds practically to trace today his course in the six months hunt along the Uganda Railway.
 Arrives in April.
 On Apri! 21. on the steamer Admiral. of the German East African Line, Mir. Roosevelt and party will reach Mom- basa, a squat island city, the largest seaport of British East Africa. basking in a hot tropical sun. it's Moorish walls refiecting the light and contrasting brilliantly with the stately palms and the gold mohur tSee. with Its rare red blossoms. Nestling in this tropical luxuriance are the European bunga- lows, or native villages. Mombasa has two hotels, and fin the public gardens stands a statue of Sir William Mac kinnon, one of the greatest benefactors of East Africa.
 Leaving Mombasa, the Uganda rail- way runs past Kllindini and dips down to Salisbury Bridge, a fine viaduct l.700 feet long, connecting the Island of Mombasa with the mainland. and then begins the steep climb to the small section of Changamwe. The first leg Into the wilderness will be made by the Roosevelt hunters by train to Machakos. some 200 miles from Nom basa, where MT. Roosevelt will visit for a fortnight with Sir Alfred Pease, who has hunted with him in America. Sir Alfred lives twenty miles from the railroad
 Magnificent View.
 Fruit vendors swarm about the train at Changamwe selling the produce of the plantations. with which tho coun- try is thickly covered. Here also is obtained a magnificent view of the arms of the sea that enfold Mombasa. Port ReitZ. stretching three. miles in- land from Kllindini. looks like beau tttul lake. with its werdure-clad banks and the Snimba hills in the back ground. The ascent Is sharp and th tough the distance Is still short from the coast. the traveller can observe game from the car windows At Vol. which is 1900 feet above sea level, the American party will have an opportun- ity to see Mount KilimRnjaro, one of the highest peaks in Africa. rearing its mighty crest 1s,000 feet into the | clouds This huge sugar loaf noun. 1 tain, clothed in eternal snow. will moi be visited by the Roosevelt party un- less the present plans are changed.
 The jungle railway then passes through undulating and fairly open country until the train reaches Tsavo station. on the banks of the pretty ] Tssvo river. peaceful place 1t will