New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-25
ROOSEVELT'S TRIP
ELEPHANT HUNTING.
ErDeditiOn to Mount KENO
Notable Hunting Stories.

Nairobl. British East Africa, Sept. 20
Colonel Roosevelt, accompanied by MS son
Kermit, Edmond Heller and r. j. cunning
hame, started for Nyeri in the early days
of August with the intention of getting a
bull. COW and calf elephant. Although bet
ter elephants are obtainable In the Nile
country of Uganda. Colonel Roosevelt was
particularly anxious to get an elephant in
the Kenia district, so that Mr.. Heller
could have a better chance in the cooler
climate there of saving the skins in good
condition.
Major Mearns and Mr. Loring started for
the snow line of Mount Kenia Q8,2OO feet
on September 4. and made their first camp
at Kamiu Ranch, belonging to Hugh H.
Heatley, where the expedition camped
when after buffalo. They were then 10
march by easy stages over the, Ruiro
River. the Ndarugu River, over the fine
concrete bridges at the Thika and Chania
rivers. thence past Punda Milia. which is
the fine farm of Messrs. Swift and RutheF-
ford and so TO Fort Hall. The march Is
about sixty-four miles and the road is good
all the way. Motor cars have gone from
Nairobi to Fort Hall, and Winston Spencer
Churchill so made the journey.
Meanwhile Colonel Roosevelt has not been
idle and as already told in dispatches, has
shot fine bull elephant, with tusks weigh
ing about eighty pounds each, good sized
one for the Kenia district. Elephant
hunting is no child's play, for one must
creep up to within some twenty feet OF them
or even nearer, and of course, If they get
the wind or hear the hunter the chances OF
his escape are small.
After getting his elephant Colonel Roose-
welt went toward Mweru, where there is
good game shooting. A sportsman recently
came into Nyeri from Mweru, which is less
than a days march of Nyeri. who had en-
countered a charging man-eating Hon. a
charging rhnoceros and an elephant, all
within twenty PAGES of one another lie
killed the lion with his first shot, and then
the rhinoceros charged and fell dead to
good shot. Then, to his amazement, a bull
elephant appeared, and he shot it dead. As
the three beasts lay dead there was nos
more than twenty PAGES between them
| The ,sportsman's nerves suffered to such an
extent that he left them as they lay and
FASTENED to the government station at Ny
eri, where he arrived in almost a state OF
collapse, and told his story, which was
treated as a fairy tale by the district com
| missioner, who verified 1t, however, on the
| following day.
When Mr.. SelouS and Mr.. macmillan were
out after lions in this district, accompanied
| by Judd the professional hunter. Judd was
following Mr.. Selous on a mule. Suddenly
! his mule nearly stepped on huge lion, and
as the mule swerved Judd fired from his
| hip. Almost simultaneously the mule bucked
him off. and he landed almost touching the
lion. He prepared to make a fight for his
life, but, to his surprise, the lion did no.
move, and he found that his shot had en-
tered the eye and killed it without leaving {
mark on the skin. W. Macmillan has taken
the skin home TO have 1t set up
On the Mweru-Nyeri road lions have beer
playing havoc with the governments and
traders safaris, so that the government has
been forced to close the road to traffic. II
is estimated that some hundred native men
women and children have lost their live:
10 these man eaters