New Britain herald., 1924-10-04
VhROOSEyELT .mIN AFRICA
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to wait until we get to Hoima, I've got no anaesthctic m camp"
 That was that Later when Colonel Roosevelt heard that Mearns decided to operate, he offered to help in any way that he could, His Interest in my welfare touched me deeply, and l was very grateful for his insistenco that l should remain under Mcarns' wing until the opera tion could be performed.
 l found them all very delighted with their Uganda trip so far 'as 1t had gone, especially Colonel Roose- welt.
 "I am delighted" he told me. "at having baGEed so unexpectedly bull elephant here. His tusks weighed 55 pounds each--not big one, but in fne condition"
 CHAPTER XIV.
 Among the Cow People Qf Unyoro
 After lunch, Colonel Roosevelt was persuaded to tell me about the killing of his first elephant in Uganda.
 Directly we had camped here" he commenced, "some of the local natives arrived and begged us to rid them of four elephants who had been running their crops. They told me that one of the bulls had killed a villager few days previous ly, while he was working in his banana plantation. They then told us that the four elephants had been seen. an hour earlier. at spot only few miles from our camp.
 Kermit, Cunninghame and l started off at once, and less than two miles from our camp we saw the four elephants. The biggest bull charged me at sight. but I managed to bowl him over with only one shot. The others then made off. All the time this was going on, we could hear the noise made by our porters pitching camp. So I claim that l killed my first elephant in Uganda on the very threshold of my camp" l And that was the first-and only elephant they killed in Uganda, for they had secured all the specimens they desired.
 We had been travelling through the Ankole country. whose people have cattle with immense horns. No cattle in the world possess bigger horns than these sleek and healthy looking cattle, with coats as glossy as satin. Colonel Roosevelt had been much interested In these cattle, and Kermit had made a number of fine pictorial records of them.
 I shall always remember Kisingo camp for the reason that there I first tasted elephant trunk soup. It was one of the delicacies provided at dinner that night. It was very rich and palatable, being not unlike OK tail soup, but very much thicker and stronger in flavor.
 Six spoonfuls of this soup was a regular meal. The Roosevelts all ways sampled dishes made from the different beasts they had killed, but they decided that elephant trunk soup and hippopotamus tongue were the most delicious of all their strange meals.
 We struck camp at dawn and con- tinued our march to Hoima. We were now entering the country of the Unyoro people. The roads were very muddy and sticky, for there had been a deluge of rain in the night, but we made very good speed, notwithstanding.
 The whole nature Of the country changed here. We now climbed up, by easy stages, through a regu- lar elephant country to the top Of a narrow ridge of rocky hills from the summit of which we obtained our first distant view of the hills sur rounding Albert Nyanza.
 Kermit was the first to arrive in the new camp, and I was good second in my rickshaw. When halted at the camp, I found all the local Banyoro chiefs assembled waiting at the entrance to the com