. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels . Copyright, 1910, by Underwood d UnderwoodMR. ROOSEVELT AND GENERAL SLATIN ON CAMELS AT KEUKEIM, K<JY1T. Photo by Paul ThompsonTHEODORE ROOSEVELT AT THE ROMAN FORUM CHAPTER II Boyhood and Early Life THEODORE ROOSEVELT comes to us from good old Amer-ican stock, the family of the Roosevelts tracing their careeron this continent to the days of the s


. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels . Copyright, 1910, by Underwood d UnderwoodMR. ROOSEVELT AND GENERAL SLATIN ON CAMELS AT KEUKEIM, K<JY1T. Photo by Paul ThompsonTHEODORE ROOSEVELT AT THE ROMAN FORUM CHAPTER II Boyhood and Early Life THEODORE ROOSEVELT comes to us from good old Amer-ican stock, the family of the Roosevelts tracing their careeron this continent to the days of the sturdy old Dutch governor,Peter Stuyvesant. Klass Martenson Van Roosevelt, the first of thename in this country, landed in New Amsterdam in 1649. From thattime on the family occupied a position of prominence in New York City,taking an active part in the war for independence, and later on becom-ing energetic and wealthy members of the mercantile community. Born in New York City October 27, 1858, Theodore Rooseveltwas given his fathers name and inherited some of his fathers char-acteristics, especially his love of outdoor life and his interest in thedoings of the *common people. A thin, pale, delicate lad, weak and short-sighted, he did not seema hopeful case for the building of a strong man. Indeed, to keep himfrom the rough play of the public scho


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