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


the Hunting Party From America.
When | arrived in British East Africa
last spring heard a great deal on every
side about the visit oi our former Presi-
dent, Theodore Roosevelt, to the hunt
ing grounds of big game Whether it was
the Arab Sultan of Zanzibar, the Lewali
of MOmbasa the English rulers, the
German officers or the French colonists,
everybody wanted TO show their deep
appreciation of Mr.. Roosevelt.
A man who will wait with intense
interest the guests arrival will be the
hereditary Arab ruler of all East Africa,
young Ali bin Hamoud, the present
Sultan Of Zanzibar | know the Sultan
well. When the American Consul pre-
Sented Ine to him in the palace In the
summer Of 1905 his first words were
Il am always glad to meet Americans
Your big country is the one | most de-
sire tu see. Your brilliant President is
coming To East Africa. and he will have
the WarmeSt welcome ever given TO
visitor in my domains. You see We
Arabs have the same sense of honor
and high worth that you Euglish-speak-
Ing people have. 1t would be the great
est pleasure in the world for me to re-
ceive Mr.. Roosevelt and TO visit
America So spoke the Sultan Of Zan-
Lbar, n young man educated at Eton,
now twenty-five years of age, dressed
like an English gentleman, and speak
Ing the language of Shakespeare with
out an accent
On the main land at Mombasa. the
Arab ruler is called the Lewali. He Is
descendant of race of kings. He
will be on the reception committee at
Mombasa. For a long time his Arab
ancestors fought the Arabs Of Zanzibar,
but at last Zanzibar was victorious, and
the Lewali of Mombasa is now finely
educated young man, is a subject of
the Sultan and under the Protectorate
of England. Great Britain rents the
shore land for ten miles inland from the
Sultan of Zanzibar for SS5, 900 a year.
The hinterland is hers by right of occu-
patton, and a territory of 100000 square
miles, containing 5,000,00 blacks and
5000 whites, makes up what is called the
East African ProteCtorate. 1t is here
and in Uganda, another territory at the
head waters of the Nile, that the most
of the hunting is to be done. The two
side trips of most Importance are the
one projected into the Congo in search
of white rhinoceri, and the one toward
Lake Rudolph on the Abyssinian border.
There is also a fine trip to the kiliman-
jaro and German East Africa in contem-
plation.
Now, one of the men who will be prom
inent in the entertainment of the Roose-
welt party is Gov Sir James Sadler of
the East African Protectorate, who has
fine bungalow at Mombasa and one at
Nairobi, 1887 miles in the interior, at an
man of open heart and kindly DISPOSE
ton. He has been undeviatingly in
favor of giving the blacks their own
land and all their rights. Some of the
colonists think that Gov Sadler is kind
to the natives and the Hindus at the
expense of the white men, He expelled
the Hon Mr.. Bailey and Lord Della
mere from the legislative assembly at
Nairobi last year because those gentle
men were actively working against the
game preserves and the reserves of land
for the Masei and other tribes.
Mr.. Bailey and Lord Delamere are
both rich men and very popular, and
they will unquestionably be among the
British colonists to welcome and greet
the big man after big game. | under
stand that Gov. Sadler is going to have
Mr.. Roosevelt as his guest in the famous
bungalow, or Government House,
which looks off from the rocks of Mom-
basa out upon the Indian Ocean, on
view unparalleled anywhere in East
Africa.
Mr.. Currie, manager of the Uganda
Railway, and Mr.. Sweeney, his as
sistant, are both good, progressive
Englshmen. They told me that all
that could conduce to
the health and comfort of the visitors
on the railway line of their journey
would be put at the command of the
popular American hunter. They have
actually made improvements in their
rolling stock and introduced new ice
plants to please and help their dis
tinguished visitor. This Uganda Rail-
way, finished in 1902, runs from Mom-
basa to Lake Victoria, 584 miles, and
along the greater part of it the game is
protected on one side of the track. On
the right hand side of the track hunters
may shoot, and it is here that Mr.. Currie
fnd the railway officials will make all
arrangements for trains to stop; and
cars are to be equipped with every
thing that can make the hunt at this
point an assured pleasure and success.
There are hundreds and thousands Of
wild game in sight of the railway car
windows.
The party will likely proceed directly
to Nsirobi, the capital of British East
Africa, 1897 miles inland. Here Gov
Sadler and Nice-Gov Jackson will
Cor O part of the time have Mr.. Roose-
velt as a guest. But at Nairobi is
the famous American, Mr. William
n. Mcmillan, who has charming wife
and whose boundles5 wealth and genial
hospitality are known all over the coun-
try, MIR McNAlIlan 7 met in August.
He was having his Town house at Nairobi
"a handsome bungalow-htted up with
electric lights, and rooms were being
added 20 II that Ae may enable thA