The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-25
THROUGH AFRICA
 WITH ROOSEVELT
J. Alden Loring Delivers Lee
 ture on African Trip
THE DANGER TO HUNTERS
Escapes of Members of the Party From Wild Beats in the
 Hunting Trips

Waverly. N. Y, August 24-J Alden Lorlng of Owego, N. Y, one of the field naturalists that accompanied the Roose- yelt African expedition, delivered his first lecture, Through Africa With Roose- velt,' here tonight as one of the attrac- tions of the Old Home Week celebration. Mir. Loring covered the entire trip from Mombasa, British East Africa, to Condo koro on the Nile, where the big game hunting practically ceased After descrb- ing the habits of the natives and game, and relating many interesting experiences that befell various members of the party, the speaker said:
 Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit are two of the finest men to be with in camp that I have met Their whole interest was for the good of the expedition and they added many rare animals to the collection simply because they were de- ternined to make it as complete and capped by poor eyesight, the colonel is good marksman. Like all sportsmen, he made many good shots and he made many poor ones, but as a whole his shooting was above the average and he frequently brought down many flying birds, such as herons, cranes and greater bustards In hunting dangerous game, such as buffaloes, elephants, rhinoceroses and lions, he exhibited the courage of a veteran big-game hunter. and the quick ness with which he mastered the situation when in dangerous places and the accur- acy of his shooting showed that he never got excited.
 Danger Is Minimized
 q 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. After we had said goodbye to four or five settlers with whom we had become acquainted, and met them again several weeks later to find one with a badly injured arm chew ed by a leopard, a second in the hospital at the point of death from lion maul- ing, and third who exhibited rent in a shirt made by the tusks of a charging elephant that killed his gun bearer; and d1Ie1 we ndQ QlIttu WlNi a lhASSiCioAy OhO noon and learned of his death from fever the next day, we began to realize that hunting African big game was not alto gether one-sided affair
 MT. Loring spoke of Kermit as being one of the most persistent sportsmen he has ever met; cool in the presence of danger and so .enduring that when bo failed to get 1t and in the chase he out ran his gunbearers and even the swiftesi porters.
 Not on Slaughter Bent
 In substance MT. Loring denied that the expedition was one of slaughter. He said that 1t was purely scientific; sent out by the Smithsonian Institution for the purpose of enriching our knowledge ot science and to collect specimens of Afri- can animals. Ten times the amount of game could have been killed. Already over 25 animals new to science have been described and when the entire collec- ton has been worked up many more will have been found. Not infrequently the government is compelled to close to tray elers sections of the country where man. eating lions have suddenly appeared and are killing the natives or where a rogue rhinoceros or buffaloes 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 Roose- welt were shown. They depicted herds of wild elephants, rhinoceroses, giraffes and other African animals.