New Britain herald., 1924-09-30


 for the purpose of what might be called news insurance
 The great distance to be tray ersed. the rough condition of much of the route. the extreme difficulty Of telegraphic communication, and the hardship of travel, as well as Mr. Roosevelt's personal feeling about being followed by newspaper man" were fully understood and appre- ciated. But--'after due considera- tion of the extraordinary conditions "a president of the United States leaving the White House to enter the wilds of Darkest Atrica'-it has been decided to order you to com pete your preparations, get together your caravan of porters, and follow him on the long journey"
 In view of these instructions. I had decided to accompany "R. J." to Uganda and complete my own ar- engagements for the Nile journey and also to assist him in smoothing out his difficulties In connection with the Roosevelt expedition.
 On October 30, Cunninghame and I took train for Kinsumu, the rail- road terminus on the Victoria Nyan- ga, en route to Entebbe.
 On the train with us traveled Mir. and Mrs. Carl Akeley, John Mc- Cutcheon and an American named Stevenson. They were on their way to Mount Elgon via Londiani and the Uasin Guisho to shoot elephants for the Field Museum in Chicago. They were to join the Roosevelt party in the rTasin Guisho country for a few, days hunting. We said goodby 10 them at Londiani in the early hours of the next morning. -.
 Shortly afterward we were travel ing across the flat plains below the rugged Nandi Escarpment, through a land peopled by the tall and naked Kayirondo people. None of, these people wear any clothes at all, yet they have the strictest code of mor- als of almost any race in the whole world.
 When the Duke of Ccnnaught the Duchess and Princess Patricia had visited Kisumu in 1905. the governor, Sir James Hayes-Sadler, had ordered that one yard of Ameri- cani cloth should be issued to each Kavirondo who came in to greet the royal party. ..
 When they arrived In Kisumu from their villages, these quaint people had used the cloth for every purpose but that intended. Some of them had wound the cloth round their heads like turban, others had tied it in bow round their legs or arms.
 The governor was mortified, but the royal party seemed to be in- tensely amused.
 Soon our arrangements were com pleted, and every difficulty that had beset our paths had been removed.
 There was nothing left for us to do but return to Nairobi and rejoir the Roosevelt expedition.
 CHAPTER xxx. Good Luck in the Uasin Guisho
 At Nairobi found letter from
 Theodore Roosevelt which gave mt
 news of great success while huntin@ in the Uasin Gisho > country ant along the banks of the 'Nzoi river The letter follows
 On Safari, Nov. IS, 'os.
 Dear Foran:
 On this trip so far we have baggec four elephants, leopard, a five horned giraffe and various antelope including roan, bushbuck, Jackson hartebeeste, orbi, singsing, topl bohor, kobus, kob and reedbuck. We shot the elephants. in com pany with Akeley, for the American Museum of Natural History in Nev
 York, and I shall now give one 0
 the elephants, we have already kille, r and preserved, to the museum of tn University of California at Sal Francisco.
 Will you give this also to Ward . and to Reuters Agency (smith B Mackenzie & Col?
 I look forward to seeing you oI . the 30th.
 Faithfully yours,
 Theodore Roosevelt. 9 The general health of the expedi ton had been wonderfully good al through the hunting, although Ker T init had had a touch of sun one . and also slight attack of tic | fever on first arriving in the country Colonel Roosevelt felt a slight re
 turn of his Cuban campaign feve
 at Lake Naivasha, and Heller UT derwent bad go of mslarial feve : near Kenya.
 O They were now concluding the s last big safari in British East Africt y although there were still to be tw n or three small ones made by Colon, !. Roosevelt and Kermit individual ) and so it was fitting that they shoul
 end 1t so we'll.
 T. In all they had made four Tor 'i' safaris into the outlying district m British East Africa, having ust le Nairobi as their main base camp. ,' Cunninghame and l went up I Id special train from Nairobi on No to 2s in order to meet them on the in arrival at Londiani on the followir pr day. They were expected to mar, m into Londiani about II o'clock.
 About 10:30 we saw Kermit a, h. Leslie Tarlton riding across tI m plains toward the railroad depot, u an attended by natives but carryil TO their rifles across their saddl, n. Both were delighted to see Cunnin or hame, and were soon busily engag
 in relating their adventures and ny quiring about the arrangements f In the Nile trip,
 e. Kermit looked very well and su .e' burned; but Tarlton showed plain 10 that he was ripe for a long re
 The responsibilities that had rest ne on his shoulders in managing such
 big anH imnnrfant eYnadition In q