39F A SPORTSMAN AND NATURALIST. 



Other game bagged includes a rhinoceros with excellent horns, a 

 buffalo, a giraffe, an eland, a zebra, an ostrich and an oryza. Some 

 skins not hitherto collected have been obtained and preserved for 

 the Washington Museum. 



Kermit Roosevelt also did some shooting, having killed two 

 elephants and an exceptionally large, fme rhinoceros. 



Sixty- four cases, and every one big and bound with iron bands 

 and filled with all that remains of lions, giraffes, elephants, hippo- 

 potami, monkeys and other beasts which would still be roaming the 

 wilds of Africa but for the invasion thereof by former President 

 Roosevelt, arrived in Brooklyn, New York, October 12. 



The sixty-four cases were unloaded from the Anchor Line's 

 steamship Italia at the pier of the Union Stores. Every case Vv'as 

 marked : " Smithsonian Institute National Museum, Care of Col- 

 lector of Customs, Port of New York. From Smithsonian African 

 Expedition, R. E. X." The Italia received the cases at Naples from 

 a steamship that brought them from Zanzibar. 



ROOSEVELT PROUD OF HIS ELEPHANTS. 



Colonel Roosevelt and R. J. Cunninghame arrived at Niavasha 

 on October 20 from an extended hunt, looking extraordinarily 

 brown and feeling well. They were delighted with their expedi- 

 tion and Colonel Roosevelt said that both he and Kermit were proud 

 of having got their elephants, and especially proud that they had 

 each got one when they were unaccompanied by such experienced 

 hunters as Cunninghame and Tarlton. 



The skins of the elephants and the skulls and bones were 

 brought in by porters. The huge skulls were carried by eight 

 porters, with reliefs of eight more every now and then. The loads 

 were suspended from long poles. 



The Roosevelt party proceeded to Nairobi. There the station 

 was crowded with officials and settlers. Lord Delamere was among 

 those to greet the ex-President, and they stood for a few minutes 

 discussing his proposed visit to Lord Delamere's ranch at Njoro on 

 his return from the Guaso Nguisho. 



