CHAPTER XIL 



Coi.. RoosEVEivT A Ri:markabi.e Hunter — Ali, Records Broken — 

 Bags a Bule Rhinoceros — Shoots a Giraffe in the Neck 

 AT 400 Yards — Coe. Rooseveet Kiees His First Eeephant 

 — Bags a Leopard and Captures the Leopard's Cubs 

 Aeive — Arrives at the Ju Ja Ranch — Coe. Rooseveet 

 Deeighted. 



/^"^OL. ROOSEVELT'S hunting in Africa and his expedition 

 ^-^ has been successful enough to satisfy the most exacting of 

 men. Not only has he broken the record for the number of lions 

 killed by one man, but he has secured giraffes, elephants, rhino- 

 ceroses, buffalos, hippopotami and leopard as well, to say nothing 

 of a number of less important game. His first ten days' hunting 

 yielded twenty-seven head of big game of many different species. 



When not occupied in searching for specimens or writing he 

 spends his time practicing shooting. When particularly delighted 

 with the result of his day's hunting he spends the evening at the 

 camp-fire, pointing out how Africa could be made a great country. 



Col. Roosevelt undoubtedly owes his life to his courage and 

 unerring aim, which combination brought death to a huge bull 

 rhinoceros near Machakos. 



Charged by a huge rhinoceros, Theodore Roosevelt, Ex-Presi- 

 dent of the United States, raised his rifle and waited. 



On came the maddened beast, crashing through the reeds, his 

 ugly horned head bent low, the impact of his powerful feet making 

 the earth tremble. 



He was forty paces distant, his squeal was heard above the 

 snapping of the brush; he was thirty paces away and his blood- 

 shot eyes glistened like rubies; twenty paces between the hunter 

 and the bulky monster, whose hot breath raised the temperature, 

 even in that torrid climate; fourteen paces to go and no downs 

 Then — 



