Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1909-04-16

former President 10 stay # this Amcri.
can home while he is getting ready for
his big safari Journey. There are
, nearly seven hundred Ea-lishucu nand
around NairYbi. and they viii have IT,
Ceptlons and horse rd,.s. bantuct~ ard
speeches. In the N.ir,hi p.St efice
one day | was addressing a picture
postal to Mr. Roosevelt, who was then
President, and an English pioneer farmer
came in and saw it. He said to me-:
IF you know Mr. Roosevelt, tell him |
have a farm ten miles square, with forty
wild bufaloes on il. We are keeping
them in the hope that your President
will give us look in"
Mr.. Mcmillan is nephew of Senator
Mcmillan of Michigan. | asked him
why he continued to live in Africa.
He replied: Il don't know. No man
knows what fascinates him with this
wild country. | have AiricaE.tis, |
suppose. And | hope the President,
when he comes, will find it az enjoyable
as always do. have a farm Of 20Uy0
acres and can take him To rhino and
wild buffalo, as well as lions, within
fifty miles Of Nairobi, and show him the
widest life he will find in Africa. We
are simply rejoicing in the anticipation
of the fun and sport and good fellowship
We shall have with such popular and
high minded and distinguished man as
Roosevelt. We Americans are going
to make it evident that we have a big
man with US
If Mr., Roosevelt viii take my advice
he will not miss the Kilimanjaro Noun
tain and the Taveta Forest, on the
| borders of German East Africa and in
the Province of Moschi He can get
train from Nairobi back to Vol, about
two hundred miles. From Vol to Burra
among the Taita Hills is twenty-three
miles. At Burra he will find the English
collector, great and skillful hunter.
Then he will cross the Seringeti, desert
of scrub for fifty miles, full of lions,
leopards and hyenas. There | had two
donkeys eaten by lions and a dog eaten
by leopard. Across the Seringeti
there is a good road, built right up
through British Territory to German
East Africa and Marangu, in the Kill
manjaro region. While | was there in
August, 1908, eleven elephants were
killed by British and German sports
men in one week
At Taveta Forest on the border of
German and British East Africa, lives
the best sportsman in the whole CONT
nent Of Africa, and Roosevelt cannot
afford to miss hunt with him-my
friend, Mr. Hyde Baker, the English
Commissioner He has shot 200 ele-
plants and an equal number of lions,
besides host of game and birds for
Baron Rothschild Tall and straight,
and in his prime, Baker is the man near
est Roosevelts ideal in Africa Baker
is the only white man who ever saw an
okapi (the newest animal to scicnce)
alive. He shot it in the Ituri forest
for Baron Rothschild
Mr.. Baker talked with me about the
visit of America S foremost hunter. He
said in simple, boyish way: Tell the
President if he comes my way | Will
show him all the game. That was not
much to say, but when it's all it's a
great deal, for this man knows all the
game from the Zambesi to the Nile.
In MoscM Roosevelt will find q glori-
Gus hunter in Sergeant Major Bast, of
the Moschi Askaris native troops).
Herr Bast has killed two lions before
breakfast. He has shot rhinoceri by
the score and lived among wild beasts
for twenty years. He is the best author
ity on the Nasal, the famous hunting
warriors, in the world
Continuing his journey to Uganda,
the tide of enthusiasm will not abate
when the indomitable Teddy" reaches
the Nile country and the Japan of Cen
trail Africa The English Governor Of
Uganda, Sir Hasketh Bell of Entebbc,
on the shores of Lake Victoria, is re-
doubtable hunter. A picture in En-
tebbe shows the Governor surrounded
by all kinds of trophies-lion pelts, zebra
skins, buffalo horns, elephant tusks
Governor Bell will give the former
President of the United States the free
dom of Uganda. The Governors new
house at Entebbe will be open to the
coming lion hunter.
The King of Uganda Banda Chwa,
a boy of twelve, grandson of that famous
Mtsea, who entertained Stanley told me,
while his eyes sparkled with boyish
glee, that nowhere could the President
find such big bull elephants as in Uganda.
He drew me map of Uganda and
marked upon it the famous hunting