Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-05
DOLLAR A WORD FOR
ROOSEVELT WRITINGS
On Trip to Africa He Will
Travel as Faunal Naturalist
for the Smithsonian.

Washington. Feb. 26.-The complete
plans for President Roosevelt's hunting
trip in Africa have been given out.
The president, it seems, win go as a
faunal naturalist, commissioned and
outfitted by the Smithsonian institu-
ton. He will take with him his son,
Kermit; Major Edward A. Mearns, u.
s.. A. (retired for physical disability;
J.. Loring Alden and Edmund Heller.
r. ]. -Cunninghame, the English hunter,
will join the party in Africa.
The president will remain in africa
somewhat more than a year. In all he
will be absent from America two
years, but part of his second year will
De devoted to travel and lecturing in
Europe. He will lecture at oxford uni
yersity, England; the Sorbonne, in
Paris, and at the University of Berlin.
BY Rail and Caravan.
The Roosevelt party will leave New
York about the middle of March, going
by the Mediterranean route to Gibral-
lar and Naples, where it will board a
inc for Kilindini harbor, Mombasa
Island. They will arrive at the East
African port toward the end of April,
proceed by the Uganda railroad to
Nairobi, spend six months there, then
continue by rail to Port Florence, Lake
Victoria Nyanza, making a total dis
lance Of 584 miles by rail. The expedi-
lion will cross Uganda by caravan, and
inally pass down the whole length of
the Nile, reaching Khartoum about
April, 1910. Much of h hunting and
specimen collecting will be done in
British East Africa, where the Uganda
railroad will be used as a means of
ready transportation from Nairobi,
which will be the base of supplies.
At Khartoum, it is expected, the
president and his son will be joined by
Mrs. Roosevelt, who will accompany
them on their trip to Europe.
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Upon reaching 1zilindini, April "a, the
party will spend a short time in Nom
hasa and then proceed by train on the
Uganda railway to Nairobi, the capital
of Ukamba province and headquarters
of the administration OF British East
Africa protectorate, a city of 1854 In
habitants, of whom $40 are Europeans.
Nairobi will be used as the headquar-
ters and base of supplies, and from
there trips will be made into the coun-
try Whereabouts, which abounds with
animals.
1t is in this section that Mr.. Roose-
welt hopes to do most of his hunting
and collecting. Trips, extending from
a week to a month in length, will be
made in all directions. Supplies and
camping outfit will be carried ~ ma
tives and camps established at various
points on the trips.
1t has been decided that s~now-capped
Mount Kenia, $4,000 feet high, an ex-
tinct volcano nea Ndoro, to the north
of Nairobi, will be the objective point
of me of these trips.
One Of the objects of Mr.. Roosevelt
I'm taking this trip is for the purpose OF
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books regarding his experiences. Dur
ing last summer he contracted with the
Charles Scribner's Sons, of New York,
giving that firm all the rights for the
serial and book form publication OF
whatever he might write on his visit TO
Africa. 1t is said hat the contract
price agreed upon is 81 per word, but
this never has been verified.
His contract with the Scribner firm
will not interefe with a contract he
signed last October to become an as
sociate editor of The outlook magazine.
For that publication he will write on
other matters in which he may become
interested while abroad. From time tc
time that magazine will print articles
under his name.
Said to Want Privacy.
Mr.. Roosevelt wishes it understood
thai he will not permit himself TO be
feted as General Grant was on his TRIP
around the world. He wants no news.
paper correspondents along, it is as
serted. He would also like it under
stood that one of his reasons for going
away is to prevent any assertions that
he is exerting influence over Mr.
Taft.
The president will be joined by Mrs
Roosevelt at Khartoum on his way out
of Africa, and she will remain with him
on his European tour.
At Paris Mr.. Roosevelt will lecture
in French on the Marquis de Lafayette,
and at Berlin he will address the stu
dents I'm German on the tooth anniver-
sary of the founding of Berlin univer-
Sity.