New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-04
DEATH OF DR.. PROSCH
A Pathetic Incident of Mr..
RooSeveIt'S Trip.
BURIAL OF A MISSIONARY.
Wonderful Health of Elk -Presi-
dent and Son-List Of
Game Killed.

Gondokoro, SoBdan. March Zone Of the
most pathetic incidents connected with the
visit Of Colonel Roosevelt to Africa vas
the death Of the Rev. DIT. Roderic Prosch'
a French missionary. who was returning
home to end his days quietly. DR.. Prosch
was TIE guest OF Colonel Roosevelt at
luncheon on March !, apparently in good
health but the next day he was dead
The steamer Dial. with the Roosevelt
party aboard. had left Gondokoro which Is
probably the most embarrassing. hot and
dusty place in all the land. y native came
running down the street. saying that his
master was diving. a physician answered
the call in haste. He found DR.. Prosch
lying in his tent He bled the missionary
as the only means Of saving his life, but
he was too late.
This was the sad ending to ten and one
half years Of missionary work in the I'M
healthy Zambesi country Of Northwest
Rhodesia. II was hard 10 die just on the
threshold Of civilization. when thoughts
had been centred on home. At sunset eight
native policemen carried the body TO its
grave. under the shade of the tree where
his tent had stood. A rough coffin had been
made Of packing cases, and blanket was
wrapped around the body. At the head OF
was firing party OF the Uganda constsbu-
larry. Nj the European residents and local
merchants attended as a mark OF respect
10 the dead missionary.
Inquiries developed the fact that there
was no one of those who gathered at the
grave Of the same religion as Dr. Prosch'
and. curously enough. all the whites were
Catholics. one OF tho newspaper CORE
SDoud,rts consented TO read the Church OF
England burial service. only the previous
dav at luncheon d.. Prosch and Sulonel
Roosevelt had discussed the question OF re-
ugious tolerance. and they had agreed mat
there should be no intolerance. Fate Or
dsined that Dr. Prosch should he buried
b. Roman Catholics tWonty-four hours
later. although he himself was a Lutheran.
This death and the fact that almost
every one else had suffered from malarlai
fever. served again 10 call particular atten-
ton to the marvellous health which Colonel
Roosevelt and his son enjoyed throughout
tho expedition They did not have one
DAYS illness. while a number of the party
were attacked several times. Not many
men could have gone through the expert
ences which they encountered in this un-
healthy country and yet have remained
immune 20 sickness.
The achievement Of Colonel Roosevelt
and Kermit have been marvellous They
have shot nearly five hundred large mann
mails The bag includes three giant Gland.
two bongos. nine white rhinos, one sta
tUngaa. seventeen lions. eleven elephants,
seven cGectahs three sable antelope. a num-
her %. autelopes and gazelles, including the
greater kgdu. roam antelope. Gland "ribi'
hohor. kobus-koh, bushbuck. sing-sing. topi,
Jackson's hartobeesto. dik-dik, thomsorli
and Glurtii gaelic. Neumauus hartebceste.
reed buck zebra. Onyx Of various Species,
r1araIout storll, egret and many specimens
Ct vildehecste. Theirs is the finest collec-
ton OF African mammals. birds and reptiles
that has ever been made.
Tho naturalists obtained not fewer than
eleven thousand specimens. four thousand
Of which were collected in Uganda and the
I I.ado Euclaye.