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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 ]. Allen Loring.
After wonderfully successful
shooting trip in the Sotik country,
the expedition camps for more hunt
ing at farm called Saigai-Sai Co
ing next to Naivasha, the party
meets with more good sport. They
are at Nairobi Club during race week.
The Nairobi Club gives ball and
the stewards of the East African
Club give dinner in honor Of
Roosevelt.
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The race meeting was memorable
for the fact that Colonel Roosevelt
was present, and also because it was
the first occasion for the Annual
Produce Stakes to be run. This was
tor horses and mares born and bred
in British East Africa. Kermit rode
in this and another race with con-
siderable judgment and skill, but
without the good fortune to win.
The race track was a couple of
miles outside Of Nairobi and on the
edge of the Athi Plains. Wild game
of all kinds could be seen with the
naked eye just beyond the track. On
more than one accession, lions had
been hunted and killed on the track:
and more than once in the history Of
the Turf Club lions had been so UNI
sporting as to interrupt training gall
lops over the course.
The whole of East Africa, with the
commencement of the new week
turned its thoughts to the public
banquet which was to be given to
Colonel Roosevelt in the Railway In
stitutc at Nairob on the evening Of
August 3. Everyone, officials and
settlers alike, was feverishly await
ing his speech in the hope that it
would bring forth a favorable ex-
preston of opinion on the country
and it's future prospects.
Everyone felt that the country's
making or breaking rested on the
words Of Colonel Roosevelt, for they
knew that his publicly expressed
opinions would carry very great
weight in England.
CHAPTER XIII
Nairobi's Banquet to Roosevelt
Two hundred officials, settlers,
missionaries and business men as
sembled in the Railway Institute of
Nairobi to do honor to Theodore
Roosevelt. If there had been more
space available. the gathering would
have been larger. But it was a rep
resentative body of the people who
were giving their time and labor to
the development of British East AZ
RIGA.
The women of the community. and
those who had been unable to Sc
cure seats at the tables, were seated
round the edge of the hall so that
they could all hear Colonel Roose-
velt's speech.
1t was plain to see that everyone
present was in a state of suppressed
excitement, for the Importance of
the distinguished Americans words
to the country's future had been
realized by all
The hall and tables had been taste
fully decorated by the ladies, and be-
hlnd the chairman's seat the national
flags Of Great Britain and the United
States formed framework for the
coat OF arms of the Roosevelt fam
lily.
The acting governor, Sir Frederick
Jackson, presided at the banquet.
with Colonel Roosevelt on his right
and Kermit on his left. Also at the
governors table were the Roman
Catholic bishop of East Africa, Lord
Delamere, and number of the most !.
prominent residents of the country.
The toasts of the king and the presi-
dent OF the United States were ac-
companied by the playing of the re-
spective national anthems by the
native band Of the Third Battalion
OF the Kings African Rifles.
After Sir Frederick Jackson had
expressed the great pleasure of all
East Africans in entertaining Colonel |
Roosevelt and in assisting him to
make his visit both pleasant and sue
cesstul, the town clerk Of Nairobi,
Captain E. L. Sanderson, rose and !
read the address of welcome, which |
had been printed on silk and enclos-
ed in a very handsome elephant tusk
in silver and suspended on |
a silver chain.
After Sir Frederick Jackson had !
presented the address and the tusk
to Colonel Roosevelt, he called upon
Major c. j. Ross to present him with
a souvenir of East Africa on behalf
Of the American residents of East |
Africa.
In pithy speech, this hardened
old veteran of many arduous CAM
paigns and adventures presented
Colonel Roosevelt with magnificent
rhinoceros-foot tobacco box mounted
in silver and with silver relicas of a
rhinoceros and buffalo head upon !,
the lid.
Sir Frederick Jackson then pro-
posed the health of Theodore Roose-
Welt. The toast was received with a
remarkable outburst of wild enthu- |
siasm, everyone springing to his feet
and singing "For he's jolly good
fellow" with true Highland honors.
Colonel Roosevelt was obviously
deeply, touched and moved by the
genuine warmth of his reception.
This ovation was renewed when he
rose to his feet to reply to the ad-
dress of welcome, his long speech
being listened to with rapt atten-
ton and punctuated throughout with
extraordinary outbursts of cheering |
and applause.
CHAPTER XIV
Roosevelt Speaks at Nairobi
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