The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-30
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and then make the railroad journey
to their first camp on the game
crowded Kapiti Plains. With Colo
mel Roosevelt are his son, Kermit,
and three scientific members Of his
staff-Major Edgar A. Mearns. Ed
mund Heller and j. Allen Loring.
After a wonderfully successful
shooting trip in the Sotik country,
the expedition camps for continued
hunting at a farm called Saigai-Sai.
After several other trips they in
wade the Guaso Nyero elephant coun-
try and meet with more good sport.
They leave Nairobi for Londiani, on
the Uganda Railway. After trip
through "fine open grass plains"
edged with forests, they arrive at
Londiani.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Ker-
nit, Tarlton, Heller and the huge
safari started off to the Uasin Guis-
no country.
They were to camp the first night
at Five Miles Camp, and then make
Eldama Ravine in one march on the
following morning. They made a
fine show as they started off in sim
gle file, singing loudly and with ma
tive horns and drums adding to the
noise. At their head was carried the
, American flag.
Colonel Roosevelt remained at Lon
DIAM with Cunninghame and myself,
intending to wait for the coming Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Akeley of the
Field Museum Of Natural History in
Chicago, and John Il. McCutcheon,
the famous cartoonist of the Chicago
Tribune, who had hoped to see him
| before his start for the Uasin Cuts
no.
An hour after the main "safari",
had started, telegram arrived for
Colonel Roosevelt to say that Akcley
party could not reach Londiani in
time to see him.
Colonel Roosevelt delayed his de-
parture no longer, but mounted his
favorite house, tranquility" and
rode after the Safari. He was accom-
panied by his favorite native gun
bearer, Bakhari.
The day following his departure
from Londiani was Theodore Roose-
velt's 51st birthday. Kermit had
spent his Goth birthday hunting near
Lake Harrington, and had then al
ready killed all the major and most
dangerous kinds of African big game
CHAPTER AK
Preparations for the Nile Journey
Cunninghame was not going to ac-
company Roosevelt on this trip into
! the Uasin GuishO country. Things
, had not been working out smoothly
in connection with the Nile section
of the great journey through Africa,
and there was still a very great deal
| to be arranged.
So it had been decided that Gun
ninghame should return to Nairobi,
| after the expeditions departure from
Londiani and take with him the
colonels horse, zebra shape" which
had gone very sick and could scarce
ly walk. He was then to proceed to
Entcbbe and Kampala in Uganda to
complete the plans for the trip into
the Congo and down the Nile.
Roosevelt was due back in Lon
| DIAM in about five weeks time from
the Uasin Guisho, and would then
make a few special hunting trips to
complete his East African collection,
| and start for Uganda at the end of
December.
Meanwhile ! had written to my
employers in New York to explain
the details Of the plans for Roosc-
velt's hunting trip down the Nile,
and to ask if they desired me to
follow him.
! In reply they had written me
that
"When the question of following
Mr.. Roosevelt from Uganda on the
long trek northward to Khartum
came up for consideration, it was
realized that while the trip probably
| would be made in safety by the men,
|; bers of the Roosevelt party, still
there was always the danger of a
! some wild beast, the result of which
might be fatal to the hunter instead
| of to the hunted.
consequently, it has been decided
to cover the Roosevelt party for
| something like 1900 miles through
| the African wilderness. This is pro-
badly the first time such an expedi-
ton ever has been undertaken for
the purpose of what might be called
news insurance.
1.-THE great distance to be trav-
ersed, the rough condition of much
| Of the route, the extreme difficulty
to Geographic communication, and
the hardship of travel, as we'll as Mr..
Roosevelt's personal feeling about
being followed by newspaper man"
were fully understood and appre-
ciated. But-"after due considera-
ton of the extraordinary conditions
"a president of the United States
leaving the White House to enter the
| wilds Of Darkest Africa-it has been
decided to order you to complete
your preparations, get together your
caravan Of porters, and follow him
on the long journey"
In view of these instructions, l
, had decided to accompany "R. j." to
Uganda and complete my own ar
| engagements for the Nile journeys
| and also to assist him in smoothing
out his difficulties in connection
| with the Roosevelt expedition.
On October 30, Cunninghame and
took train for Kisumu, the railroad
terminus on the Victoria Nyanza, en-
route to Entebbc
! On the train with US travelled Mr..
and Mrs. Carl Akeley, John Nc
Cutcheon and an American named