The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-08-25
Ex-PRESDENT AND SON RlSkED
LIVES ON LAST HUNT IN
VARIOUS WAYS.
Many Animals New to Science Added
TO List--Naturalist Loring Tells
OF Hunt and What Was
Gained

L NdtCliy, Az AUS. hihNh
Loring of Owego, N. ", one of the
| field naturaists that accompanied
the Roosevelt African Expedition, de-
liyered his first lecture. Through
Africa with Roosevelt" here tonight
as one of the attractions of the Old
Home Week celebration. Mr.. Lor-
! ing covered the entire trip from Nom
hasa, British East Africa to Condo
koro on the Nile, where the big game
hunting practically ceased. After
describing the habits of the natives
and game, and relating many inter
lesting experiences that befell various
members of the party, the speaker
said:
| Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit are
1.-TWO OF the finest men to be with in
camp that | have met. Their whole
interest was for the good ,of the ex-
pidition and they added many rare
animals to the collection simply be-
'cause they were determined to make
4 1t as complete and valuable as pcs
sible. Although handicapped by poor
eyesight the Colonel is a gcol marks.
man. Like all sportsmen, he made
many good shots and he made many
poor ones, but as a whole his shoot
ing was aboye the average and he
frequently brought down many flying
birds, sucn as herons, cranes and
CRATER bustards. In hunting danger
game, such as buffaloes, elephants,
fhinoceroses ana lions, he exh bited
| the courage of veteran big game
hunter, and the quickness with when
| he mastered the situation when i15
| dangerous places, and the accuracy
of his shooting showed that he never
got excited. a
| Il do not think that the Colonel
gives his readers fair impression
of the very great danger that he and
Kermit were so often placed in. Aftef
we had said goodbye to four or five
lsettIers with whom we hadasbeeome
acquainted. and met them again sew
eral weeks later to find one with a
badly injured arm chewed by leop-
ard, a second in the hospital at the
point of death from lion mawling,
and third who exhibited a rent in
| snirt made by the tusks of a clarg-
ing elephant that killed his gun bear.
er; and after we lad dined with a
missionary one noon and learned Of
his leath from fever the next day,
we began to realize that hunting In
! Africa for big game was not alto
gether a onesided affair"
Mr Loring spoke of Kermit as be.
ing one Of the most persistent sports
men he has ever met; cool IN the
presence of janger and so enduring
that when he pursued wounded ami
NAL. he seldom failed to get 1t and
in the cnase ne outran his gun bear
ers and even the swiftest lorters.
In substance Mr.. Loring denied
that the expdtion was one of slauga,
ter. He said that it was purely scien-
tific; sent out by the Smithsonian In
stitution for the purpose of enriching
Jour knowledge of science and to col
Elect specimens of African animals.
Ten times the amount of game could
have been killed. Already, over TWEEN
ty-hve animals new to science have
been described and when the entire
Icollection has been worked up, many
Imore will have been found, Not in
frequently the Government is com
lpelled to close to travellers, sections
of the country where nran-eating
lions have appeared and are killing
. the natives or where the rogue rhi-
Inocerous or buffaloes toss them with
their horns These animals have to
be killed before the region is again
safe for travellers. Game is so abund-
liant that barbed wire fences are brok-
en- down by zebras, wild beasts and
hartebeests and crops seriously dam
. aged. The settlers encourage hunters
and If they mad their own way, in a
short time the vast herds of game
that now roam over the plains would
be greatly decreased.
A large number Of colored lantern
! slides made from photographs
I mads by Colonel Roosevelt and Ker
7 riit Roosevelt were shown. They
depicted herds Of wild elephants, rni
noceroses giraffes and other African