New Britain herald., 1924-09-29

roue toward me klft NHlley notei he told mo 6 little about his recent adventures,
 Kermit and I are both very proud of the fact that we have gotten some of our elephants without the help ol Cunninghame or Tarlton," he said and his eyes were full of pride Elephant hunting Is no child's pla, at any time. I had mighty mar row escape from an old bull, too.'
 Tell me about 1t, Colonel: I've only heard rumors," begged him. ' 'Cunninghame and came acros, a big husker, and fired . little tc one side of its eye" Roosevelt com menced. "The shock stunned the big fellow, but did not kill him. My second bullet sped true, and the ele. phant crashed to the ground. Be- fore there was time for me to re- load, the thick buShes parted on my left and huge bull elephant charged straight for mo. He was so close that he could have knocked me down with his trunk.
 T leaped to one side and lodged behind tree, throwing tho empty shells out of my gun and rapidly re- loading. But Cunninghame fired right and left barrels of his gun at the bull, and then threw himself into the bushes, Both his bullets hit, and stopped the charge. The elephant wheeled, and galloped away into the thick cover of the forest. We ran after him, but were unable to get shot at him. We could hear him trumpet shrilly and, an- grily ahead of us; and then all sounds ceased. It was mighty close shave, Foran!"
 had heard of his being nearly killed by charging elephant, but had not realized how close had been the call, It was, indeed, provi- dential escape
 The skins and skeletons Of the ele- phants that had been killed were carried into Naivasha by the native porters; but as the loads were very bulky and heavy. the progress of the safari was necessarily Islow, not reaching camp until late in the af- ternoon. @ !, The huge skulls of the elephants were slung on poles, and each was carried by eight porters. Each load had a relief party of eight porters in attendance upon it, otherwise they would not have been able to carry the heavy loads over the high hills of the Aberdare Range.
 On reaching Naivasha, the loads were imme diately spread out in the camp and sorted. Then Heller took charge and supervised the load ing of them Into two freight vans. which were to be attached to Colonel Roosevelt's special train early next morning for transfer to Nairob, After dinner Roosevelt talked more of his recent trip. He seemed particularly proud of his experiences when hunting along with only his native followers in the Guaso Nyero country. He had used donkeys to carry his supplies and baggage on this trip, also some Kikuyu natives. Here he had killed a magnificent specimen of an eland bull, after 6 long and difficult stalk. Later he had killed an oryx, and marabou stork or the wing with his rife His success i continued, and daily he had added tc his trophies, He said that thi: little personally conducted hunt was delightful, and he had become reall, attached to his native employees.
 That night Roosevelt and Heller slept at the hootel, while Cunning hame and myself bedded down ir the camp. We were all up and about at sunrise, for our train wal due to leave for Nairobi at 8 o'clock We arrived at Nairobi at noon, and found Lord Delamere and great many officials and settlers on the platform to greet Colonel Roosevelt on his return after such a long absence.
 He stood chatting with Lord Dela. details of his hunt with him after Bongo and giant pig at Nero 1T December. And then he drove of to McMilan's house, where he wal to be a guest while in Nairobi.
 Kermit and Tarlton arrived thu following morning, having riddcr down from Nakuru in a. freight train. They had done some sue cessful hunting during the two cl three days they had 'remained al Nakuru.
 All the members of the expedition spoke wistfully of Kermit's astound' ing feats of endurance on safari. | seemed that he could even veal down such tried old veterans al lCunninghame and Tarl.on. The latter was looking very much tho worse for his hard hunting in com pany with Kermit. According 10 1arlton, kermit aD solutely did not know the meaning of the word fear" and no hardship was too great for him. Distance was no obstacle, and he would al soon travel 40 miles a day as 20 His foot running had greatly i'm pressed Tarlton, and indeed everyon' in the expedition; and on more thai one occasion Kermit had run dowi on foot fleet-footed antelope or ga zelle, and then killed them after [ long chase across the sun-burne' plain.
 On Monday. October 25, we al left Nairobi for Londiani.
 We reached Nakuru at o'clocl in the morning, and here collectet our porters and horses. Cunning hame, Tarlton and I worked al through the small hours of tn morning to see that they were al got onto the train. At daybreal we reached MoIo m the summit a