400 A SPORTSMAN AND NATURALIST. 



lived, and am counting the days that must elapse before I go out of 

 office. Then there are some months in Africa. I shall hunt big 

 game, see a wonderland, live close to nature, and study natural 

 history." 



J. Alden Loring and Major Edgar A. Mearns, both of the 

 Roosevelt hunting party, returned to Nairobi on November 3, from 

 their expedition to Mt. Kenya. 



The climbers ascended the mountain to an estimated height of 

 16,000 feet, reaching the highest point which it was possible to 

 attain without the aid of Alpenstocks. This w^as within 700 feet of 

 the summit. They collected specimens of more than 2,000 birds and 

 mammals and made many photographs of the mountain. 



Mt. Kenya is an extinct volcano. It is 16,700 feet high and 

 supports numerous glaciers. It w^as ascended for the first time by 

 MacKinder in 1899. The timber line extends to the 10,300 feet 

 level. It is called by the natives " Kimaja-Kegnia, the Mount of 

 Whiteness." It is twelve degrees south of the equator. 



