172 COLONEL ROOSEVELT A REMARKABLE HUNTER. 



hunt of his trip. He and Kermit and their party left the ranch to bag 

 another hippopotamus. On the way to the lair of the "hippo" Col. 

 Roosevelt and Kermit shot two bull buffaloes and a python. One, 

 the biggest of the two, was brought down by Col. Roosevelt alone, 

 while the other was bagged by Col. Roosevelt and Kermit together. 



The python killed by Col. Roosevelt the preceding day was the 

 largest taken in British East Africa in many years. The former 

 President and F. C. Selous, his guide, stumbled across the python 

 at- the edge of a swamp, where it was quietly making a meal of an 

 antelope, horns and all. 



Roosevelt was more excited over the killing of the serpent, 

 measuring twenty-three feet, than over his first lion, although there 

 was slight danger to himself. The bullet that killed, however, was 

 one back from the head, which cut a vertebra. Roosevelt assisted 

 Selous and a band of natives in skinning the python on the spot. 



THE ROOSEVELT PARTY AT NAIROBI. 



All the members of the Roosevelt party came into Nairobi at 

 4 o'clock in the afternoon from the Heatley ranch. They were in 

 splendid health. In the last hunting Col. Roosevelt bagged another 

 buffalo, and a bull wildebeest fell before the rifle of his son Kermit. 



The naturalists of the expedition had collected two pythons 

 and four hundred odd birds and animals. They were especially 

 delighted with some unexpected specimens. 



The Spanish- American War, in which Col. Theodore Roosevelt 

 played a stellar role, was vividly recalled to him by the display of 

 a flag captured by an American at the naval battle of Santiago. 

 The owner had since settled in British East Africa, and had added 

 his prized relic to the wealth of decorations that had been put out in 

 honor of Col. Roosevelt's return. 



The reception to Col. Roosevelt in the evening was the heartiest 

 ever if not the most elaborate that he had encountered since leaving 

 New York. The whole town was decorated with flags and bunting, 

 the display being many times more elaborate than that which greeted 

 him upon his first coming to the town. 



During Col. Roosevelt's stay in Nairobi a number of affairs 



