CHAPTER XXIV 

 A SPORTSMAN AND NATURALIST 



RoosKVEr.T Hunting in the: Inti^re:st oi^ Sciivnci^— Strangi^ 

 BLASTS FOR Smithsonian Institute — Back to Nairobi — 

 Conci.ude:s a Ten Days Tour on the South Shore — Inter- 

 ested in Church Work — Taeks to Africanders — Laying 

 Corner-stone op New Mission at Kijabe — Rooseveet's 

 Trophies arrive at Washington — Resumes Hunting- 

 Brings Down a Big Buee EeEphant — Saved from Death 

 BY Charging Eeephant. 



r^OLONEL ROOSEVELT is not only a sportsman but a 

 ^-^ naturalist, and when he determined on taking a hunting trip 

 to Africa, he decided that this should not be merely for sport, but 

 that it should be for the benefit of science. Pie was accordingly 

 accompanied by three gentlemen who are good naturalists, good 

 collectors, and good company as well, and these went with the 

 express purpose of securing as many specimens as possible for the 

 Smithsonian Institution. The expenses of these three were met 

 by friends of the Institution, and the shooting of the monkeys that 

 had caused so much ink to be shed in the columns of the daily papers 

 was in accord with the programme thus laid down at the outset, 

 and the animals were killed for specimens. The assertion that they 

 w^ere shot for sport is a pure invention of some newspaper writer. 



If it is proper to kill animals to be used as ornaments, it is 

 certainly justifiable to kill them for museum specimens, and these 

 very monkeys have been slaughtered almost to the verge of exter- 

 mination in order to furnish collars and muffs for wearing apparel. 



Ex-President Roosevelt, accompanied by Major Mearns, came 

 into Naivasha on Thursday, July 2.2, riding round the east side of 

 the lake, while J. Alden Loring, the naturalist, came across in 

 Captain Attenborough's launch. Profesor Edmund Heller re- 



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