The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-19

assistance from Messrs. Cunninghame
and Kermit Roosevelt. A few marine
shells were collected near Mombasa
and land and fresh water shells
throughout the regions visited, as
well as crabs, beetles, millipeda and
other invertebrates.
Several thousand plants were col
lected throughout the regions visited
by DR.. Mearns, who employed and
trained for the work Kunyamvezi
named Makaugauri, who soon learned
how to make very good specimens
and turned out an excellent man in
every way.
"Anthropological materials were
gathered by DR.. Mearns with sons
assistance from others. A collection
was contributed by Major Ross, an
American in the government service
at Nairobi."
If you want to study the hunt in
the light of the dictionary, please
note the following animals that were
included in Roosevelt's "bag.'
KEpperspringer Buteo. Hartbeeste.
Dig-Dig, Bushback, Gemsbok, Egert,
Eland, Borgo, HARDWARE, Cheetah.
Marabout, Koodoo, Bongo, Sitatunga,
Singing Topi, Oribi, Bohor, Kob, Cal
otis, Strepisceros, Colobi, Impalla.
| Duikaro, Steinbuck and Otocyon Yer,
1 gatus.
Some of the animals should be
credited to Kermit, who as hunter,
showed himself chip of the old
block.
The hunt was under the auspices of
the Smithsonian Institution, though
at the Colonel's initiative. The cost
4 of it, excepting the personal expenses
of the colonel and his son, was met
4 by contributions, said to be $4,000,
made by a group Of friends. The
names OF these friends have never
. been published. The cost of mount
ing the specimens secured by the ex-
petition will, it Is estimated, be
$4,000 The colonel paid his and
Kermit's expenses, though this out
lay will be reimbursed to him many
times over by the proceeds from his
magazine articles and his forthcom-
ing book on his hunt For his articles
; now running in Schibner's, Roosevelt
: receives 81 q word.
The colonel's feat in spending
3 eleven months in the jungles of Africa
/. without suffering SO much as days
illness and the practical immunity OF
g his son Kermit, was great surprise
10 cnr n
v dire predictions were made that fevel
j would lay him low, the sleeping sick
S ness seize him, the tse-tse fly poison
:. him or the beast of the jungles mair
o him, but with characteristic "Roose
e welt luck he escaped them all ant
t came out of Africa looking like
n fighter trained for the ring. 1t re
NAMED for the effete civilization o
IL European capitals to overtax hi
n strength and endurance.
e Once during the hunt he was chare
e ed by a maddened elephant and too
S refuge behind a tree while Guide +
,, j. Cunninghame brought down tn
q, animal. At another time his boat wa
f. attacked by a school of hippos nea
4 the camp at Saigosi. The hippo
threatened to overturn the boat an
h the native rowers were scared stiff.
y Roosevelt picked off two of the hiI
d pos in true "Deadwood Dick" styl
d and actually put the hippo fleet t
ID rout After this his native attent
r ants attributed more than huma
Of prowess to him. On still another 0,
e, casion, while enroute to the estate {
I'd Commander AttendDorough, the co
IN onel and his party nearly famishe
" for water In the march from Nimul
in to Gondokoro, 10S miles, the part
re was in the thick Of the african jung
,r- for ten days. fording streams, slee
to ing in the open and enduring har
IN ships that only the stoutest in lin
st and heart could have gone throug
mt with. This shows that the expedite
was far from being of the de luxe
nd order.
10, Another thing that astounded Roos
cit velt's American friends was the fid'
m, ity with which he adhered to his stat
he ment that from the time he left Anne
lea until his return he would refra
he from all public discussion of Anne
sat can politics. Not once has he viol;
On ed the rule and number of CT
.ol- respondents, mostly foreign, W
lhr "piped" political stories and attrib
we ed them to Roosevelt, were called t
Jus shorter and uglier word" instante
ee When Roosevelt arrived at Re
hut on March II, this being practically
ast emerging from the wilderness, the
md was wild rush upon him of corr
10. pondents who had engaged spec
are boats for the up Nile trip. But
.rn. they learned in political way "
what the United Press corresponds
ire. had already told the world-that
als colonel would not discuss Amerie
or politics. These correspondents w
Dr close friends Of Roosevelt and Il
am. pumped him right and left, bef
has breakfast and at bedtime, but Roc
900 welt was adamant and the world e'
Of yet has only surmises as to how
former president views political c
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