The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21

former President to stay at this Ameri-
can home while he is getting ready fer
his big safari Journey. There are
nearly seven hundred Englishmen in and
around Nairobi; and they will have re-
ocptlons and horc, races, banquets ard
speeches. In the Nairobi post Office
one day l was addressing a picture
postal to MI. Roosevelt, who was then
President, and an English pioneer farmer
came in and saw it. He said to me:
III you know Mr.. Roosevelt, tell him l
have a farm ten miles square, with forty
wild buffaloes on it. We are keeping
them in the hope that your President
will give us a look in"
MIR. Mcmillan is a nephew of Senator
Mcmillan of Michigan. I asked him
why he continued to live in Africa.
He replied: II don't know. No man
knows what ~fascinates him with this
wild country. I have Africanitis, l
suppose. And I hope the President,
when he comes, will find it as enjoyable
as l always do. l have a farm of 20, DOC
acres and I can take him to rhino and
wild buffalo, as we'll as lions, within
fifty miles of Nairobi, and show him the
widest life l., will find In Africa. We
are simply rejoicing in the anticipation
OF the fun and sport and good fellowship
we shall have with such a popular and
high minded and distinguished man as
Roosevelt. We Americans are going
to make it evident that we have a bic
man with u.s."
1t Mr.. Roosevelt will 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
2 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, a great and skillful hunter.
Then he will cross the Seringeti, q desert
OF scrub for fifty miles, full of lions,
leopards and hyenas. There I had two
donkeys eaten by lions and a dog eaten
by a 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 1 was there in
August, 1903, 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 CT Africa, and Roosevelt cannot
a9lord to miss a hunt with him-my
friend, Mr.. Hyde Baker, the English
Comrni ,sioner. he has shot 200 ele-
phont5 and an equal number Of lions,
besides a host of game and birds fer
Baron R~othschild. Tall and straight,
and in his prime, Baker is the man near
Roosevelt's ideal in Africa. Baker
is the only white man who ever saw an
okapi (the newest animal to scienoe)
lie shot it in the Ituri forest
for Baron Rothschild.
Mr.. Eaker talked with me about the
visit Of Amcrica's foremost hunter. lie
said in q simple, boyish vay: Tell the
President If he comes my way l will
show him all the game Itst was net
much to say, but when. it's all it's a
great deal, for this man Knows all tie
game from the Zambeai to the N,ile.
In Moschi Roosevelt will find a glcri-
Gus hunter in Sergeant MGjcr last, Of
the Moschi Askaris (native trocp-).
Herr Bast has killed two lions bel, r2
breakfast. He has shot rhinoceri =
the score and lived among wild beasts
twenty years. He is the best auth y
lty 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 Entcbbc,
On the shores of Lake Victoria, is a re-
.oubtable 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
lion hunter.
The King Of Uganda, Banda Chwa,
4 boy of twelve, grandson of that famous
Ntsea, who entertained Stanley told me,
while his eyes sparkled with boyish
slee, that nowhere could the President
ind such big bull elephants as in Uganda.
He drew me a map Of Uganda and
marked upon it the famous hunting {
spots in his big kingdom of $50, 900
square miles. i
There is a hotel at Jinja at the Ripon
falls, but here is a good Irish Episcopal
minister, Archdeacon Buckley, and a |
GOOD Catholic priest, Bishop Hanlon. !
These distinguished prelates expect q
o help make the Presidents stay among :
he wild men of Bukedi and the cave
nen Of Mount Elgen an interesting and :
one. They are no vain carpet ?
these brave missionaries. They 3
ross savage morasses for 300 miles