CONTENTS. ix 



the Most Famous Kingdom of Africa — A King Glorious in Trinkets — 

 People Prostrating Themselves Before Their Monarch — The Whims of a 

 Despot — Taxes Levied on Furniture — Killing Husbands to Get Their 

 Wives — Strange and Savage Customs — A Nation Famous as Elephant 

 Hunters and Men Stealers 274 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Greatest Feat on Record — Journey Across the Continent to the Congo — An 

 Army of Followers to Carry the Outfit — Journey to the Victoria Nyanza — • 

 Speculation as to the Sources of the Nile — Dangers of Traveling in the 

 Dark Continents-Crawling Through Jungles 292 



CHAPTER XX. 



Roosevelt a Skilful and Untiring Hunter — Off for the Sotik District — Two 

 Days and a Half in the Scorching Sun — Hears His Prowess as a Lion 

 Killer Told in Song and Sketch — In Search of a White Rhinoceros. .. 313 



CHAPTER XXL 



Roosevelt Hunts on Lake Naivasha — Adds a Bull Hippopotamus to His Col- 

 lection — Ammunition Used by Colonel Roosevelt in Africa — Exciting 

 Combat with Hippopotamus 333 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Frederic Courtenay Selous — A Hunter Without a Peer — Friend, Companion 



and Guide to Colonel Roosevelt — Colonel Roosevelt's Estimate of the Man — 



The Fatal Sleeping Sickness of the Dark Continent — A " Safari " and what 



it Means 347 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



Roosevelt and His Party Suffer from Hunger — Without Food and Water 

 for a Whole Day — Supplies Rushed Forward to Their Relief — Bags Two 

 Rhinoceroses and a Wildebeeste — Kermit Gets a Female Hippopotamus to 

 the Delight of His Father 365 



CHAPTER XXIV. 

 Roosevelt Hunting in the Interest of Science — Strange Beasts for Smith- 

 sonian Institute — Back to Nairobi — Concludes a Ten Days Tour on the 

 South Shore — Interested in Church Work — Talks to Africanders — Laying 

 Corner-stone of New Mission at Kijabe — Roosevelt's Trophies Arrive at 

 Washington — Resumes Hunting — Brings down a Big Bull Elephant— Saved 

 from Death by Charging Elephant 385 



