Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-06-17

the light of the dictionary please
note the following animals that we're
included in Roosevelt's bag.
Klipperspringer, Buteo, Hartbees-
te. Dig-Dog. Bushback, Gemsbok,
Egert, Eland. Borgo, Aardvark.
Cheetah. Marabout. Koodoo, Bongo,
sitatunga, Singing, Topi, oribi, Kob,
Bohor, Calotis, strepisceros. Colobi,
Impalla, Duikare, Steinbuck and
Otocyon Vergatus.
Some Of the animals should be
credited to Kermit, who as a hunter
showed himself chip of the old
block.
The hunt was under the auspices
Of the Smithsonian Institution,
though at the Colonels initiative.
The cost of it, excepting the personal
expenses Of the Colonel and his son,
was met by contributions, said to be
$25, 900, made by a group of friends.
The names of these friends have
never been published. The cost of
mounting the specimens secured by
the expedition will, it is estimated
be $55, 700. The Colonel paid his
and Kermit's expenses, though this
outlay will be reimbursed to him
many times over by the proceeds
from his magazine articles and his
forthcoming book on his hunt. For
his articles now running in Scribner's
Roosevelt receives 81 a word.
The Colonel's feat in spending
eleven months in the jungles of
Africa without suffering so much as
a days illness and the practical i'm
munity of his son Kermit, was a
great surprise to the medical world.
All sorts of dire predictions were
made that fever would lay him low,
the sleeping sickness seize him, the
tse-tse fly poison him or the beast of
the jungles main him, but with
characteristic Roosevelt luck" he
escaped them all and came out Of
Africa looking like a fighter trained
for the ring. It remained for the eff
fete civilization of European capitals
to overtax his strength and endur-
ance.
Once during the hunt he was
charged by a maddened elephant
and took refuge behind a tree while
Guide R. J.. Cunninghame brought
down the animal. At another time
his boat was attacked by a school OF
hippos near the camp at Saigosi. The
hippos threatened to overturn the
boat and the native >rowers were
scared stiff. Roosevelt picked off
two of the hippos in true Dead
wook Dick" style and actually put
the hippo "fleet" to rout. After
this his native attendants attributed
more than human prowers to him.
On still another occasion, while en-
route to the estate of Commander
Attendborough, the Colonel and his
party nearly famished for water. In
the march from Nimule to Condo
koro, 1OS miles, the party was in the
thick of the African jungle for ten
days, fording streams, sleeping in
the open and enduring hardships that
only the stoutest in limb and heart
could have gone through with. This
shows that the expedition was far
from being of the "de luxe" order.
Another thing that astounded
Roos velt's American friends was
the fidelity with which he adhered to
his statement that from the time he
left America until his return he
would refrain from all public discus
sion of American politics. Not once
has he violated this rule and num-
Der of correspondents, mostly for
eign, who "piped" political stories
and attributed them to Roosevelt,
we're called the shorter and uglier
word" instanter.
When Roosevelt arrived at Renk
on March II, this being practically
his emerging from the wilderness,
there was a wild rush upon him of
correspondents who had engaged
special boats for the up-Nile trip.
But all they learned in political
way was what the United Press cor
had already told the
the Colonel would not
discuss American politics. These
we're close friends of
and they pumped him
right and left, before breakfast and
at bedtime, but Roosevelt was ada
mant and the world even yet has only
surmises as to how the former
President views political conditions
in this country.
The meeting between Roosevelt /
and Clifford Pinchot, whom Presi- /
dent Taft deposed as Chief Forester.
at Porto Maurizio on April 10, II was /