. 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 ... found in the course of his travels . ded some grandees, the chief of whom was the kings sent me a goat, a hen, a basket of eggs and some plantains, inreturn for which I sent her a wire and some beads. I felt inclinedto stop here a month, everything was so very pleasant. The tempera-ture was perfect. The roads, as indeed they were everywhere, wereas broad as our coach-roads, cut through the long grasses
. 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 ... found in the course of his travels . ded some grandees, the chief of whom was the kings sent me a goat, a hen, a basket of eggs and some plantains, inreturn for which I sent her a wire and some beads. I felt inclinedto stop here a month, everything was so very pleasant. The tempera-ture was perfect. The roads, as indeed they were everywhere, wereas broad as our coach-roads, cut through the long grasses, straightover the hills and down through the woods in the dells—a strangecontrast to the wretched tracks in all the adjacent countries. Thehuts were kept so clean and so neat, not a fault could be found withthem—the gardens the same. Wherever I strolled I saw nothing butrichness, and what ought to be wealth. The whole land was a pictureof quiescent beauty, with a boundless sea in the background., Lookingover the hills, it struck the fancy at once that at one period the wholeland must have been at a uniform level with their present tops, butthat, by the constant denudation it was subjected to by frequent rains,. AN ELEPHANT HUNTA fate which sometimes overtakes the hunter
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