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for some time secure from the enraged animal, which, after search- 

 ing for him in vain, scampered off in another direction; nor could 

 his companion, who w^as galloping up to his assistance, conceive 

 v/hat had hecome of him, until he saw, to his great satisfaction, 

 his head cautiously emerging from the bowels of the earth. 



Theodore Roosevelt, who was hunting big game on the south 

 'ihore of Lake Naivasha from the ranch of Captain Richard Atten- 

 borough, succeeded in bringing down a big hippopotamus and a 

 zebra. The hippopotamus is estimated to weigh three tons. 



Colonel Roosevelt, to judge from a letter received from him 

 by a friend in Washington, was having quite as successful and 

 interesting a trip as he anticipated. This letter was dated Nairobi, 

 Africa, and among its striking passages w^as one referring to Ker- 

 mit Roosevelt's hunting. 



KERMIT IS RECKLESS. 



Kermit, it seems, showed more enthusiasm than caution in the 

 pursuit of African big game. Some of his encounters had been of 

 a nature to excite remark from his father, and it inferred that they 

 must have been little short of reckless to have been considered out 

 of the ordinary by so competent an authority as the former 

 President. Though enjoying his stay in Africa, Colonel Roosevelt 

 apparently had a touch of nostalgia now and then. 



Leslie A. Tarlton, of Nairobi, who accompanied the Roosevelt 

 expedition to the Sotik country, was chased into town by five lions, 

 the district having been invaded by many of these animals. 



Tarlton arrived at Naivasha on horseback, after as thrilling a 

 night journey as man ever took, and one, he says, he does not care 

 to repeat for worlds. While making an all-night journey Tarlton 

 was chased for many miles by i'we fierce man-eating lions. He put 

 spurs to his horse, and managed to elude the man-eaters, though 

 they followed him to the very outskirts of Naivasha. 



" There were five of the big black maned man-eaters in the 

 pack," said Tarlton in describing his experience, " and the persis- 

 tent manner in which they tracked me to the very edge of Naivasha 

 showed their fierceness. It was a close calk" 



