. African game trails;. Hunting. 416 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS cal and successful farmer, and the most useful settler, from the stand-point of the all-round interests of the country, in British East Africa. Incidentally, the home ranch was most attractive—especially the library, the room containing Lady Delamere's books. Delamere had been himself a noted big-game hunter, his bag including fifty-two lions;. As he fell he gripped a spear-head in his jaws with such tremendous force that he bent it double From a photograph by Kerniit Roosevelt but instead of continuing to be a mere sportsman, he turned
. African game trails;. Hunting. 416 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS cal and successful farmer, and the most useful settler, from the stand-point of the all-round interests of the country, in British East Africa. Incidentally, the home ranch was most attractive—especially the library, the room containing Lady Delamere's books. Delamere had been himself a noted big-game hunter, his bag including fifty-two lions;. As he fell he gripped a spear-head in his jaws with such tremendous force that he bent it double From a photograph by Kerniit Roosevelt but instead of continuing to be a mere sportsman, he turned his attention to stock-raising and wheat-growing, and be- came a leader in the work of taming the wilderness, of conquering for civilization the world's waste spaces. No career can be better worth following. During his hunting years Delamere had met with many strange adventures. One of the lions he shot mauled him, breaking his leg, and also mauling his two Somali gun- bearers. The lion then crawled off into some bushes fifty yards away, and camp was pitched where the wounded. 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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