HUNTING BIG GAME IN THE WILDS OF AFRICA CONTAINING THRILLING
ADVENTURES OF THE FAMOUS ROOSEVELT EXPEDITION In Search of Lions,
Rhinoceri, Elephants, Hippopotami and othe Ferocious Beasts of the
Jungle and Plain, INCLUDING JOURNEYS IN UNKNOWN LANDS, MIRACULOUS
ESCAPES, CURIOUS CUSTOMS OF SAVAGE RACES, AND MARVELOUS DlSCOVERIES
IN THE DARK CONTINENT TOGETHER WITH GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF
BEAUTIFUL SCENERY, FERTILE VALLEYS, VAST FORESTS, MIGHTY RIVERS AND
CATARACTS, INLAND SEAS, MINES OF UNTOLD WEALTH, Etc., Etc. THE
WHOLE COMPRISING A Vast Treasury of all that is Marvelous and
Wonderful inl Darkest Africa -- INTRODUCTION -- THEODORE ROOSEVELT
is not only a great Statesman, but he is also the most Renowned
Hunter in the World. His Famous Voyage, beginning at New York,
March 23, gog nineteen days after he had turned the reins of
Government over to his successor-took him directly into the Jungles
of Africa, inhabited by tke wildest of wild beasts and wild men.
When it was announced that our distinguished Ex-President was to
undertake this expedition, he was pronounced by college professols
and-others, through the press of the United States and Europe, as
foolhardy in contemplating such a hazardous trip. From one end of
the country to the other the newspapers printed accounts of the
dangers he would encounter, and it was widely predicted that
Theodore Roosevelt could never return alive. Members of his family,
including his old nurse who cared for him when a child, admonished
him of the dangers of his undertaking. With Mrs. Roosevelt he
called at the home of his governess at her Grammercy Park home to
say good bye. The old woman, with tears in her eyes, kissed him
good bye and cautioned him tobe careful. I have read in the papers,
said she, such awful things that you will surely catch an incurable
fever, of the sleeping sickness that a deadly reptile will bite you
that an African insect will sting you to death that the savage men
will massacre you that the treacherous leopard will spring upon you
without warning that the ferocious lion will surely get you, and Oh
To this the undisturbed man of iron merely smiled and bid the
constant companion of his childhood days an affectionate farewell.
The Hamburg-American Line had made special preparations in fitting
up the same suite of rooms on the steamship Hamburg that the Kaiser
had occupied on his famous Mediterranean voyage. AS the ship
steamed froin her docks at Hoboken a distinguished party, close
friends of the Ex-President, crowded the steamer, many of thein
following her to Sandy Hook in chartered boats in paying their
respects to the man who had ruled over the destinies of this nation
for sevcn years. Daily bulletins from the steamer, en route to
Naples with its distinguished passenger and his son Kermit, were
chronicled in newspapers throughout the world. Other steamships
plying the ocean received marconigrams daily telling the passengers
about the progress of the voyage. At Gibraltar, the little British
possession at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea, a cordial
reception was tendered to Col. Roosevelt. While the former
President insisted that he was traveliilg in strict i zcog zit a o
n d surely not in any sense as a public man, probably the most
elaborate and royal recqption was tendered him upon his arrival at
Naples that has ever been given any public dignitary or private
individual at that port. During his stay inItaly Col. Roosevelt
visited the site of Messina destroyed by earthquake, fire and tidal
wave on Deccmber 28, 1908, when 200,000 people lost their lives...
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