The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-30
BY WARRINGTON DAWSON.

Especial correspondent of The
Press with the Roosevelt expedition
in Africa.)
NAIVASHA, August 1O.-After
four months in British East Africa,
Colonel Roosevelt has accom-
plished practically all that he
hoped to do in q year, with the ex-
ception of getting elephants and
white rhinos. He is hunting ele-
plants now. The rhinos he cannot
get until he goes up into the Nile
region, a month from now. They
do not exist anywhere else.
Colonel Roosevelt's success has
made him ambitious. Now he hopes
to bag a koodoo, rarest of deer
and perhaps even the bongo, which
no white man has ever seen.
Roosevelt is given much credit
in Africa. Apart from what l my
self have seen of his initiative, his
resOurcefulness and his endurance,
l have talked with a number of ex-
perienced and wei known hunters
in East Africa who have been out
with him and seen him under fire.
Men like c. j. Cunninghame, F, C.
Selous, w. N. Mcmillan, Sir Alfred
Pease, H. A. Williams and Leslie
Tarlton all testify that Colonel
Roosevelt's success has been due
to his wisdom in needing the advice
of old hands, adde to his own en-
ergy, courage and perseverance.
Colonel Roosevelt has had one
guide who will accompany him to
the end of the trip-C. J. Cunning
hame, who is considered the best in
East Africa. For the Sotik ana
Kenia trips Leslie Tarlton went
also. His taskwith Cunninghame is
to submit plans to Colonel Roose-
vent based on their knowledge of
the country.
Colonel Rooseveltss big Is now
completed for the following vari-
cites of big game, shot exclusively
by the colonel and Kermit:
Twelve lions, seven rhinO, six
hippo, six giraffe, five buffalo, four
Gland, six topi, in addition to wild
erbeest, hartebeest, impala, con-
goni, thompsonii, grantii, zebras,
dykdyk and subvarieties of gazelle
or antelope. The entire collection,
together with the birds, reptiles
and mammals shot or trapped by
DR.. Mearns and Loring, represent
some 1000 specimens of all kinds.
The only other animals of the
ordinary species which Roosevelt
will continue to shoot are lions,
Owing partly to this years drouth
driving them near mans habita.
tons and partly to the danger in.
Cured in shooting them, so that
inexperienced hunters like to avoid
them, lions in East Africa have in.
creased to the extent of becoming
a veritable plague, and the govern
ment has classed them as vermin.
Far from suffering from the AT.
rican climate, as was prophesied
for him when he left America,
Roosevelt finds himself in splendid
health, and indeed much better
than when he left home.
Both the colonel and Kermit not
only have kept in splendid condi'
ton, but the colonel has worked Off
a good deal of the stoutness which
came from his seven years of ply.
steal inactivity as president, while
Kermit has developed into such a
hardy sportsman and walker that
there is not a native Of the expedi-
ton who can keep up with him
! when 1t comes to a days tracking.
The colonel also shows hardness
which would rejoice his friends.
From newspaper accounts which
preceded him, they had been pre-
pared to meet stern statesman
with very arbitrary opinions and
little pity ON those who happened
to disgree.
Instead of which they found a
man seeking information about the
country's economical and industrial
condition, as well as about hunting
They found him ready to listen to