ILLUSTRATIONS 



Mr. Roosevelt and one of his big lions Frontispiece 



Photogravure from a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt. 



FACING PAGE 



Map showing Mr. Roosevelt's route and hunting trips in Africa . . vii 



A herd of zebra and hartebeest 28 



One of the interesting features of African wild life is the close association 

 and companionship so often seen between two totally different species 

 of game. 



Before he could get quite all the way round in his headlong rush to 



reach us, I struck him with my left-hand barrel 92 



Photogravure from a drawing by Philip R. Goodwin. 



Without any warning, out he came and charged straight at Kermit, 



who stopped him when he was but six yards off 116 



Photogravure from a drawing by Philip R. Goodwin. 



Mr. Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt with the first buffalo 138 



It was not a nice country in which to be charged by the herd, and for 



a moment things trembled in the balance 142 



Photogravure from a drawing by Philip R. Goodwin. 



Group Waxbills. Courser. Elephant shrew. Springhaas. Dikdik. 



Serval kitten. Banded mongoose. Colobus monkey 156 



The safari fording a stream 166 



Giraffe at home 172 



Group A rhino family. Rhino surveying the safari. " In the middle 



of the African plain, deep in prehistoric thought " 174 



Wildebeest at home 180 



Two bulls may suddenly drop to their knees and for a moment or two 

 fight furiously. 



Group The wounded lioness ready to charge. The wounded lioness . 190 



He came on steadily, ears laid back and uttering terrific coughing grunts . 194 

 Photogravure from a drawing by Philip R. Goodwin. 



