Review of reviews and world's work . me telegraph wires and a pole whileCrossing the track. Each year the dangerous game of Africatakes toll of life from the hunters thatpursue it. and early in this volume discusses thi> dangerous game andendeavors to reach a conclusion a> to whichseries is mo>t dangerous. Preeminence inthis matter i> claimed for the lion, and rhinocero>. but different hunt-ers of great c\[>ericnce place these nam«different orders. To the list Mr. Rooseveltadds the leopard, and cites among otheramples the case of Carl Akeley
Review of reviews and world's work . me telegraph wires and a pole whileCrossing the track. Each year the dangerous game of Africatakes toll of life from the hunters thatpursue it. and early in this volume discusses thi> dangerous game andendeavors to reach a conclusion a> to whichseries is mo>t dangerous. Preeminence inthis matter i> claimed for the lion, and rhinocero>. but different hunt-ers of great c\[>ericnce place these nam«different orders. To the list Mr. Rooseveltadds the leopard, and cites among otheramples the case of Carl Akeley. of Chwwho years ago killed by throttling with barehands a wounded leopard which attackedhim. Mr. Akeley. by the way. was recentlynearly killed by an elephant in Africa, but atlast accounts was recovering. It i> extraor-dinary that such wide differences of opinionon the point should exist among men each ofwhose individual views might be thought tobe conclusive. Mr. Selou- .ample, has killed between three and four hundred MR ROOSEVELT AND KERMrT ROOSEVELT WITH GIANT ELAND H ROOSEVELT IX AFRICA 459
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