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Together with this shipment of the Roosevelt collection were 

 a large number of specimens of mice, moles and other small animals, 

 and also of birds gathered by Lieutenant-Colonel Mearns and J. 

 Alden Loring, of the expedition party. 



Colonel Roosevelt on August 21, while hunting in Kenya, one 

 of the seven administrative provinces of the British East African 

 protectorate, killed a bull elephant. The animal's skin was taken 

 care of by Edmund Heller and E. J. Cunninghame. The tusks of 

 the elephant weighed 80 pounds each. 



When shooting elephants it is often necessary to creep into the 

 herd and shoot the selected bull at a range of fifteen to thirty yards. 

 Mr. Roosevelt, accompanied by R. Cunninghame, followed this 

 procedure and killed his elephant at the second shot. 



A DANGEROUS SITUATION. 



Suddenly, before Mr. Roosevelt could reload, another elephant 

 bull charged him at close range from the herd. Both Mr. Cun- 

 ninghame and Mr. Roosevelt got behind trees, and Mr. Cunning- 

 hame fired and turned the bull from Mr. Roosevelt just in time to 

 save the distinguished hunter's life. 



The Kenya Province is to the south of the River Gwaso Nyiro 

 and to the east of the Naivasha Masai preserve. The headquarters 

 of the province are at Eort Hall, the public road to which place was 

 closed by the government officials because the district was invaded 

 by man-eating lions. The country, specially to the north and east, 

 has not been surveyed thoroughly, and is imperfectly known. The 

 climate is mild and temperate. 



The population of the parts of Kenya Province already known 

 is about 600,000, divided among the Kikuyu, the IMasai and the 

 Dorobos. The Masai are mostly warlike nomads, who long were 

 the scourge of their neighbors. They live in districts under chiefs, 

 and each chief must be a retired warrior, 



Lidj Jeassue, the Crown Prince of Abyssinia, invited Theodore 

 Roosevelt to a great elephant hunt, promising to beat up a white 

 elephant for him to kill and otherwise to arrange a splendid shooting 

 programme. 



