The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-22
ROOSEVELT KILLS
 TWO BIG HIPPOS
After Thrilling Experience in Which Companions
 Were Frightfully Scared
EXPRESS RIFLE DID IT
kBy Warrington Dawson, Staff Cor respondent United PPess.)

< respondent United PPess)
 Saisosoi, Tn Camp. CBy Horse Mes IsenKer), July 21.-Colonel Roosevelt
 khas- had many narrow calls since he
 began his African hunt but the exper-
 Hence he went through yesterday, kTuesday0, was one of thrilling in
 lin danger. That he is alive today is
 tdue to his cooIness and wonderful tmarkmanship.
 Tuesday morning at g o'clock Colonel Roosevelt, accompanied only by two Inesro porters to row his small boat, lstarted out of Lake Naivasha to seek Ia hippo, which he is lacking for his Bcollection for the Snithsopian 1nsti- kpart of the lake, far away from his kcamp, when aL school of 12 hippos sur lrounded his craft. threatening with levery movement to upset 1t and spill
 the Ex-President and bis rowers into 1.-the lake where they would have met Enstant death. for the hippos were at Hacking the boat with savage frenzy. tseveral literally hurled themselves tagainst the sides. of the little rowboat twhile two or three dived into the fwaters of the lake and came up under 1.-the boat, striking it with their backs Hn an attempt to -overturn it and Mhrow. its occupants into the water. The native boatsmen were in a tef- trible panic and their own actions ad- tdef to the impact of the bodies of the tattacking hippos threatened at every moment to OV6ILuTn Lu6 -DOdI. IaS kshouting to his rowerS to sit stin, a kwarning which they were too fright tened to heed, Colonel Roosevelt raised k31is heavy Express rifle and selected led to- be the leader of the attacking lschooI This hippo he Killed with one lehot and with the next shot he killed
 magnificent bull hippo. the finest hzilIed an this vicinity in years.
 Firing rapidly and with unering ac- kcuracy, Colonel Roosevelt killed the kmonster animals and the others took fright and fled
 Roosevelt could calm down his fright tened rowers sufficiently to make them kroW his boat alongside the dead ami fzna1s which were floating in the wa fter Colonel Roosevelt had been gone teo long that the party in camp had lerown alarmed and had put out in a launch to search for him. There Twas much anxiety in camp as the Roosevelt nor the searching launch Twas found or heard from At o'clock lthis morning however, the launch ar lrived back in camp. There had been Inc. sleep among the members of the kparty and they were all on the beach lat the@first sound of the launch's si-
 ren-
 fvvhen. the launch came up to him in tthe far side of the lake that the hip fpos he had killed in his deadly strug- lgle were too fine to lose. He insisted tthat they should be. lowed back to icamp and it took the launch several
 hours to tow them in, where they
 were eagerly seized upon by the Smithsoniau members who declared tthey were the finest killed during the fentjre hunt
 | Colonel Roosevelt's narrow escape lfrom death and the time taken in flowing the hippos back to camp has delayed his trip to Nairobi, and he
 will not start for that. place until to- tnorrew morning. He will remain fthere for some time. While Colonel Roosevelt is not inclined to magnify fhfs danger in his encounters with the hippos q the native boatmen declare they have been in many terrible sit-
 uations but this was the closest The thippos, they say, were in a savage Imood and there would have been no kescape had the boat been overturned
 They attribute their escape to Bwana N'umbo's coolnesss and splendid shoot I1ng together with his sagacity in se- hecting the leader of the school as his hdrst victim
 Edmund Heller, a member of the txaoosevelt party Sunday killed an inn tfense leopard which had been caught kna trap near. the, Roosevelt camp