424 A LION-SPEARING SAFARI. 



of, frr no white man has ever before stalked and shot a bango. 

 There are only two cases on record of a white man shooting bango 

 with the aid of the natives and their dogs. So pleased was one of 

 the residents with the success of the youth that he presented 

 Kermit with a fine specimen of the male bango, and so the Smith- 

 sonian Institution will have a complete family group, the only one 

 in the world. 



Commander H. Hutchinson, superintendent of marine, who 

 went up with Colonel Roosevelt and his party to Rhino camp, said 

 that the former President bore the hardships of the journey splen- 

 didly, notwithstanding the fact that the engine broke down once 

 or twice. 



When they arrived at Koba it was midnight, but they found 

 all the white elephant hunters of the Congo assembled to greet 

 them. Among the number was Chief Engineer Bennct, of the lake 

 steamers, who in December had been captured by the natives, but 

 had made his escape after enduring tortures for five days. 



ROOSEVELT WOULD NOT DISCUSS POLITICS. 



W. H. McMillan, who entertained Colonel Roosevelt on his 

 ranch near Nairobi, and later, while on a visit to the United States, 

 said : 



" While at my ranch Colonel Roosevelt did not read an Ameri- 

 can newspaper or magazine," said Mr. McMillan. " He continu- 

 ally refused to discuss national or international politics, although 

 many residents of the neighborhood questioned him on these sub- 

 jects. ' I am here for pleasure,' was his answer to one and all. 

 * When I return to the United States I wall say what I think about 

 the situation.' 



"' Colonel Roosevelt is a fair shot, not an extraoidinary marks- 

 man," continued Mr. McMillan. " Kermit is a better shot than his 

 father, as Colonel Roosevelt admits to every one except Kermit. 

 He is afraid it would make the young man think too much of himself 

 to tell him so. It does not, however, take any w^onderful marks- 

 manship to hit an elephant or a rhinoceros." 



Describing Roosevelt's adventures in Africa, having met the 



