174 COLONEL ROOSEVELT A REMARKABLE HUNTER. 



specimens of the former. Major Mearns occupied his time in shoot- 

 ing birds. 



While at the mission Ex-President Roosevelt made a thorough 

 inspection of the institution, and afterward had luncheon with forty 

 of the missionaries and their wives and settlers in the country. The 

 Rev. Mr. Hurlburt, in a speech, welcomed the American. 



In replying, Col. Roosevelt said: "I have a peculiar feeling 

 for the settlers working in this new country, as they remind me of 

 my own people working in the western States, where they know iv) 

 difference between easterner, westerner, northerner, or southerner 

 and pay no heed to creed or birthplace." 



Col. Roosevelt remained over night at the mission and started 

 for the Sotik district the following day. 



