The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-17
ROOSEVELT ROAMS
 IN FOREIGN CLIMBS
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 be made later by the three naturalists.
 Mearns. Heller and Loring. I send this preliminary statement to sum- marize what has been done, the figures are substantially accurate, but may have to be changed slightly in the f1inal reports.
 We landed in Mombasa on April 21, 1909. and reached Khartoum on March 14, 1910. On landing we were joined by Messrs R. J. Cunningham and Leslie J. Tarlton, the former was with us throughout our entire trip, the latter until we left East Africa and both worked as zealously and ef- fciently for the expedition as any other member therof.
 We spent eight months in British East Africa. We collected carefully in various portions of the Athi and Kapitil plains. in the Sotik and round Lake Niavasha. Messrs. Mearns and survey of H. Kenia while the rest of the party skirted its western base, went to and up the Cuaso Nyero and later visited the Guas Ngishu region and both sides of the Rift Valley. Messrs. Kermit Roosevelt and Tarlton went to the Laikipias Plateau and Lake Harrington and Dr. Mearns and Kermit Roosevelt made separate trips 60 the coast region near Mombasa. On December 19 the expedition left East Africa, crossed Unganda and went down the Nile.
 North of wadelai we stopped and spent over three weeks in the Lado, end from Gondok, so Kermit Roose- welt and I again crossed the Lodom spending eight or ten days in the neighborhood of Rejaf.
 Inc ondokoro we were met by the steamer which the Sidar, with great courtesy had put at our disposal. On the way to Khartoum we made collec- tions in Lake No, and on the Bahr el Ghazel and Bar el Zeraf. We owe our warmest thanks for the generous courtesy shown us and the aid freely given us, not only by the sidar, but by all the British officials in East Africa, Uganda and the Sudan. and by the Belgian officials in the Lado, and this, of course, means. that we are also indebted to the home govern ments of Egypt and Belgium.
 "On the trip MT. Heller has prepared 1.o20 specimens of mammals the ma- ,jority of large sizes: MT. Loring has prepared 3,163 and pr. Mearns TIA, total of 4.S97 mammals. Of the birds, iDr. Mearns has prepared nearly 3.100; sMr. Loring S99, and MT. Heller about 50: total of about 4.O00 birds.
 of reptiles and batrachians Messrs. Mearns. Loring and Heller collected about 2o00.
 "of fishes. about 500 were collected
 
 near Mombasa and fresh water fishes elsewhere in British East Africa, and he and Cunningham collected fishes lin the White Nile This makes in all of vertebrates: Mammals 4. S97; birds about 4,0o0. reptiles and batrachians about 1000; fishes about 500; total Ill., lSa7
 "The invertebrates were collected lcarefully by Dr. Means, with some assistance from Messrs. Cunningham land Kermit Roosevelt. A few marine shells were iollected near Mombasa | land land and fresh water shells i throughout the regions visited, as we'll | las crabs beetles, millipeda and other 1 Invertebrates.
 | Several thousand plants were col | t1ected throughout the regions visited ] by Dr. Mearns, who employed and | manned Makaugarri. who soon learned | how to make very good specimens and | out an excellent man in every way
 "Anthropological materials were gathered by Dr: Mearns with some as distance from others. A, collection was lcontributed by Major Ross, an Amer- lican in the Government service at fNairobi.''
 If you want to study the hunt in the light of the dictionary, please note the following animals that were in- cluded in Roosevelt's ''bag." Klipperspringer. Buteo, Hartbeetse, lDig-Dig, Bushback, Gemsbok, Egert, Eland. Borgo, Aardvark, Cheetah, Mar about, Koodoo, Bongo. Sitatunga, Singing, Topi, Oribi, Rohor, Kob, Ca llotis, strepisceros, Colobi, Impalla, lDuikare, Steinbuck and Otocyon Yer gatus.
 Some of the animals should be cred ited to Kermit, who as hunter show ed himself chip of the old block.
 The hunt was under the auspices Of < he TnStitnfiOn fhnnOh the Colonel's initiative. The cost Of lit. excepting the personal expenses of the Colonel and his son, was met by contributions, said to be $25,0OO made by group of friends. The names of these friends have never been publish ed The cost of mounting the speci- | mems secured by the expedition will, | it is estima ted be s35, 900. The Colonel paid his and Kermit's expenses, though this outlay will be reimbursed ceeds from his magazine articles and his forthcoming book on his hunt. For his articles now running in Scribner's Roosevelt receives S1 a word.
 The Colonel's feat in spending eleven months in the jungles of Africa with out suffering so much as days Ill., Tess and the practical immunity of his son Kermit, was a great surprise to the medical world. All sorts of dire predictions were made that fever WOulQ lay nlln LOW, the SleoplHS SICK ness 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 locking like a fighter trained for the ring. It remained for the effete civilization of European capitals to overtax his strength and 
 Once during the hunt he was charg- . ed by a maddened elephant and took ] refuge behind tree while Guide R. J. Cunninghame brought down the anil mal. At another time his boat was by a school of hippos near 1 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 t in true "Deadwood Dick style and ( actually put the hippo fleet" to rout I After this his native attendants at tributed more than human prOwess to ( him. On still another occasion. while l l en route to the estate of Commander I Attendborough. the Colonel and his t party nearly famished for water. In E the march from Nimule to Gondokoro, 2