. African game trails;. Hunting. AFRICAN GAME TRAILS able danger and hardship; they estabhshed trading stations for gold and ivory and slaves; they turned these trading stations into little cities and sultanates, half Arab, half negro. Mombasa was among them. In her time of brief splendor Portugal seized the city; the Arabs won it back; and now Eng- land holds it. It lies just south of the equator, and when we saw it the brilliant green of the tropic foliage showed the town at its best. We were welcomed to Government House in most cordial fash- ion by the acting Gov- ernor, Lieutenant- Governo
. African game trails;. Hunting. AFRICAN GAME TRAILS able danger and hardship; they estabhshed trading stations for gold and ivory and slaves; they turned these trading stations into little cities and sultanates, half Arab, half negro. Mombasa was among them. In her time of brief splendor Portugal seized the city; the Arabs won it back; and now Eng- land holds it. It lies just south of the equator, and when we saw it the brilliant green of the tropic foliage showed the town at its best. We were welcomed to Government House in most cordial fash- ion by the acting Gov- ernor, Lieutenant- Governor Jackson, who is not only a trained public official of long experience but a first- class field naturalist and a renowned big- game hunter; indeed I could not too warmly express my apprecia- tion of the hearty and generous courtesy with which we were received and treated alike by the official and the unofficial world throughout East Africa. We landed in the kind of torren- tial downpour that only comes in the tropics; it reminded me of Panama at certain moments in the rainy season. That night we were given a dinner by the Mombasa Club; and it was interesting to meet the merchants and planters of the town and the neighborhood as well as the F. C. Selous From a photograph by IV. N. IMcMiilan. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. New York, London, Syndicate publishing company
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