

INTRODUCTION. 



M^HEODORE ROOSEVELT is not only a great Statesman, 

 ^ but lie is also the most Renowned Hunter in the World. 

 His Famous Voyage, beginning at New York, March 23, 1909 — 

 nineteen days after he had turned the reins of Government over 

 to his successor — took him directly into the Jungles of Africa, 

 inhabited by th^ 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 

 professois 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 undertak- 

 ing. With Airs. 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 hini to 

 be 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 undis- 

 turbed 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. 



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BOSTON UNIVERSITT UBRARIBS 



