. African game trails. Hunting. 46 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS with a red blanket, a throwing stick, copper wire round his legs and arms, and perhaps a feather stuck in his hair. There were a number of ranches in the neighborhood— using "neighborhood" in the large Western sense, for they were many miles apart. The Hills, Clifford and Harold, were Africanders; they knew the country, and were work-. Percival and his oxen starting off for the giraffes From a photograph by Kerinit Roosevelt ins; hard and doing well; and in the midst of their work they spared the time to do their full part in ins
. African game trails. Hunting. 46 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS with a red blanket, a throwing stick, copper wire round his legs and arms, and perhaps a feather stuck in his hair. There were a number of ranches in the neighborhood— using "neighborhood" in the large Western sense, for they were many miles apart. The Hills, Clifford and Harold, were Africanders; they knew the country, and were work-. Percival and his oxen starting off for the giraffes From a photograph by Kerinit Roosevelt ins; hard and doing well; and in the midst of their work they spared the time to do their full part in insuring a suc- cessful hunt to me, an entire stranger. All the settlers I met treated me with the same large and thoughtful courtesy —and what fine fellows they were! And their wives even finer. At Bondoni was Percival, a tall sinewy man, a fine rider and shot; like so many other men whom I met, he wore merely a helmet, a flannel shirt, short breeches or trunks, and puttees and boots, leaving the knee entirely bare. I shall not soon forget seeing him one day, as he walked beside his twelve-ox team, cracking his long whip, while in the big wagon sat pretty Mrs. Percival with a puppy, and a little cheetah cub, which we had found and presented. 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, C. Scribner's sons
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