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led exploring expeditions that accomplished work of considerable 

 importance. 



Mr. and Mrs. McMillan have a wide reputation for generous 

 hospitality. She has shared life in Africa with her husband and 

 delights in the experience. 



The McMillan farm gets its name from the Ju and Ja rivers, 

 between which it lies. It covers 20,000 acres of land, and is about 

 thirty-five miles from Nairobi, one of the largest towns of the 

 plateau which is included in the British East Africa. It is fenced 

 in on three sides by wire netting, while on the fourth the river Athi 

 forms a sufficient protection to its boundaries. 



Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit had good hunting luck 

 on the ranch. Their bag included a waterbuck, an impalla and other 

 varieties of antelope. All the skins were saved entire, and the expe- 

 dition had now a total of sixty specimens representing twenty differ 

 ent species. 



KERMIT KILLS A LEOPARD AT SIX PACES. 



Kermit Roosevelt, while on a trip, despatched a leopard at a 

 distance of six paces. The animal already had mauled a beater and 

 was charging Kermit when he fired the fatal shot. 



The impalla, or, as more commonly called, palla, is a species of 

 South African antelope also known as a rodebok. It is the principal 

 food for lions and leopards, and being of a suspicious nature, it is 

 not only hard to shoot, but is likely to alarm other game by its shrill 

 whistle when discovered. Only the male impalla has horns. 



At the ranch the Ror.sevelt party had heard stories of a fierce 

 black maned lion that had been prowling around the ranch for 

 several weeks, and had killed a score or more of zebras. Col. Roose- 

 velt was particularly anxious to get a shot at this lion, as it was of 

 a species not included in the lions that he has already killed. 



The Colonel spent two days in a futile chase of a black maned 

 lion in the Mau hill country, but it was no such animal as the party 

 desired. The entire party was in high spirits and confident of a 

 record breaking hunt later on. 



Roosevelt started early one morning on the most hazardous 



