FOREWORD 



THE author of this little volume, Mr. J. Alden 

 Loring, is one of the three field naturalists who 

 accompanied me during the eleven months that 

 I spent in Africa, at the head of a scientific ex- 

 pedition sent out by the Smithsonian Institution. 

 In the following pages Mr. Loring has chronicled 

 many of the experiences that befell the expedi- 

 tion and its members, while some of the chap- 

 ters are devoted to the experiences of trust- 

 worthy travellers and big-game hunters whom 

 we met. What he describes as fact may unhes- 

 itatingly be accepted as such; and in the pref- 

 ace he clearly differentiates between the experi- 

 ences in which he records fact, and those in 

 which he tells stories merely founded on fact. 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 



OYSTER BAT, N. Y., 



September 19, 1913. 



