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cassava root which grows in all the gar
dens. The natives eat these puff balls
with eager voracty.
When the President starts from Kisu-
mu for the Nandi plateau and the Elgon
district, his attendants can buy their
food in the market place OF the kav!-
rondo naked natives on the shores OF
Lake Victoria Nynnzs. The Nasal will
sell them curdled milk in long gourtls.
In districts where English farmers have
settled. the white men OF the party will
be able to procure good milk and butter.
At Nnkuru. near the railway. in the re-
gion OF the Rift valley. there are FIVE
hundred Boer farmers, and good. fresh
meat will be easily obtained for expedi-
lions toward the Mau escarpment and
Edama ravine In the neighborhood Of
Nairohi there are nearly thousand
EnRlishmen. and at such farms AS that
OF Mr.. Heatley, nearly all the English
cereals and vegetables can be bought
The potatoes of the Nairohi district are
becoming famous throughout East Afri-
ca. They cost about two dollars and a
half per bushel Tic Hindus have splend-
I'd vegetable gardens at Eairobi, where
toes and nearly all the garden vegcta-
bles Of the temperate zones are grown
In tho wilder districts around Mount FL
gon there IS plenty 81 honey TO be had
from the wild natives Of Bukedi. Native
sheep and roats will be found in nearly
all the villages. even in tho widest
parts. The natives. however. do not like
to sell any Of their domestic cattle. be-
cause such animals are used in the pur-
chase OF wives and are supposed 10 be
signs OF wealth
In the Uganda country there are good
Indian stores both at Kampala ana at
Entebhe. There are also English and
italian merchants in both OF the Uganda
towns. Plenty of rice and canned goods
can he purchased at Entebbe for the
presidents. iuntine-trp through Tgan-
ia to the Congo forests. There is rick
shaw line being established for 1903
across Uganda nearly two hundred miles
to Lake Albert Nyanza All the country
ahourds in game. and there are plenty
Of wild guinea fowl and plantan-eaters
besides abundance OF cartridges and
pigeons. Among the animals they Will be
able 10 shoot in Uganda are the Speke's
tragelaph "a water-loving anmaD. of a
dark, mouse brown or chestnut color;
the Pallah antelope. Bakers roam ante
lope. the wfite-eareH kob OF rnyoro. the
steinbuck, the Duyker antelope of the
inwooded plains. These are some OF the
game which will provide the party with
food on It's journey through Uganda
II Is said that the presidents party
will need to pay forty dollars per day
for each white man Of the party. This
] think. Is an evaporation. Ny friend.
Mr.. Dutkewich. and myself Travelled
very comfortably through most of the
country over which the ex-president is
going, and It did rot cost MS over ten
or twelve dollars per day for each OF
the white men Of the party would be an
abundant allowance. even II the price
Of chickens went mp to sixteen cents
apiece. which they are very likely to dc
with such # distinguished party. EGGS
| may oven attain the enormous rate OF
three cents apiece. and potatoes ma,
cost five cents per pound. A good dea
Of the food will be supplied by the native
! chiefs. who Will expect rather elahorat 4
presents In return. nut 7 remember re-
ceivlrg a very handsome goat from Sui
tan Sulima. ~ the Wachagga tribe, fol
which gave him three cans OF CON
dcnsed milk and a halfpound tin OF
cocoa.
Along tho Nile there will he st
connection from Lake Alpert to Khartom
except for a six days march from
| Wndelai to Gondokoro. On this trip there
ought to he good antelope hunting. There
will be plenty Of lions and hippopotami
and the President may even shoot ar
| oltapi. This strange animal seeminc,
| ana is enten by the natives. But IL vii
not DO for the ex-pres!dent's party to Ge
pend on okapi meat. since only ono o,
| two specimens OF this animal have eve
been seen by white men.
| These. then, are some Of the means b,
which the party OF Mr.. Roosevelt vii
| be fcd in Africa There will be rice
chickens. chutney and rough bread a,
the staple in camp for the white men
hunters with bags Of hard biscuits
which are extremely good upon tn
march. because insects cannot pierce
their induratad surface. Potatoes ant
| garden veretn bies will be available n
Nairobi. Nakuru. Kisumu. Entebbe
and Jlnja. Salt. tea. coffee. cocoa will b'
taken from Mombasa For tho rest. thu
hunters will have to supply themselves
with fresh meat from game that exist
on every side-Peter MacQueen. =. r
e. T., IN Leslie's Weekly
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