Arizona republican., 1910-08-25
Describes the East African
 Hunting Trip l0RING, THE NATURALIST
The Colonel, He Said, Had Minimized His Own Bravery. A Denial That The Journey Was One of Needless Slaughter.

Waverly, N Y, Aug. 24-J Alden
 I-oring of Owego. N. Y. one of the field
 naturalists that accompanied the | Roosevelt Expedition. delivered his | first lecture, Through Africa With Roosevelt" here tonight as one of the
 attractions of the Old Home Week | celebration MT. Loring covered the | entire trip from Mombasa, British East Africa, to GondOkorO, on the Nile, | where the big game hunting practical | ly ceased. After describing the habits
 of the natives and game, and relating l many interesting experiences that be- | fell various members of the party, the | speaker said:
 | Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit are | two of the finest men to be with m | camp that l have met Their whole interest was for the good of the ex- petition and they added many rare animals to the collection simply be- cause they were determined to make it | as complete and valuable as possible. Although handicapped by poor eye sight the colonel is a good marksman.
 Like all sportsmen, he made many good
 shots and he made many poor ones. but
 on the whole his shooting was above
 the average and he frequently brought
 down many flying birds, such as her
 Ons, cranes and greater bustards In
 hunting dangerous game. such as buff
 falOes, elephants. rhinoceroses and
 lions, he exhibited the courage of d
 veteran big game hunter, and the
 quickness with which he mastered the
 situation when in dangerous places and
 the accuracy of his shooting showed
 that he never got excited.
 T do not think that the colonel gives
 his readers a fair impression of th5
 very great danger that he and Kermit
 were so often placed in. After we had
 said goodbye to four or five settlers
 with whom we had become acquainl-
 ed. and met them again several weeks
 later to find one with a badly injured
 arm cheWed by a leopard, a second in the hospital at the point of death from a lion mawling, and a third who ex-
 hibited a rent in a shirt made by the tusks of a charging elephant that killed his gun bearer: and after we had dined with a missionary one noon and learned of his death from fever the next day. we began to realize that hunting Afri- can big game was not altogether a one sided affair"
 E Mr, Loring spoke of Kermit as be- ing one of the most persistent sports men he has ever met: cool in the pres ence of danger and so enduring that when he pursued a wounded animal, he seldom failed to get it and in the chase he outran his gun bearers and even the swrftest porters.
 In substance Mir. Loring denied that the expedition was one of slaughter. He said that it was purely scientific, sent out by the Smithsonian Institu ton for the purpose of enricning our knowledge of science and to collect specimens of African animals Ten times the amount of game could have been killed Already. over twenty-five animals new to science have been de- scribed, and when the entire collection has been worked up, many more will have been found. Not infrequentiy the government is compelled to close to travellers sections of the country where man eating lions have suddenly ap- peared and are killing the natives or where a rogue rhinocerous or buffa- loes toss them with their horns. These animals have to be killed before the region is again safe for travellers. Game is so abundant that barbed wire fences are broken down by zebras. wild beasts and hartebeests and crops seriously damaged. The settlers encourage hunters, and if they had 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 taken by Colonel Roosevelt and Mir. Kermit Roosevelt where shown. They depict ed herds of wild elephants, rhlno- ceroses. giraffes and other African an1- mals.