426 A LION-SPEARING SAFARI. 



most complete medical and surgical outfits ever prepared for any 

 explorer. It was so condensed that all medicines and surgical in- 

 struments could be carried in a suitcase. 



There were i5,ock) doses in the tabloids, nearly forty per cent. 

 of them quinine. The other medicines were to ward off diseases 

 most prevalent in equatorial Africa, chemicals to make swamp water 

 pure and palatable, cures for snake bites, stimulants, opiates, knives, 

 and bandages. 



These supplies were packed in unbreakable and airtight bottles 

 of a vulcanite composition, and fitted into an aluminum case 

 15x10x8. 



Liquids find no place in the assortment nor in the outfit for 

 developing photographs prepared for Kermit Roosevelt by the same 

 firm and put in equally condensed form. 



FIRE THREATENED TO BURN THE CAMP. 



The party had an interesting experience that had not been 

 counted on upon their second day at Rhino Camp. A grass fire, 

 accidentally started, threatened to burn up the whole outfit, which 

 was saved only by the energetic work of all hands, including Colonel 

 Roosevelt, who led in clearing the grass immediately surrounding 

 the camp. 



Before leaving Rhino Camp the hunters got three more white 

 rhinos, a bull buffalo and other game. Kermit Roosevelt made 

 some splendid photographs of a living rhinoceros. 



The American hunters and scientists in the Nile broke camp 

 in Belgian Congo, February 3, and sailed on the waiting boats and 

 steamers up Lake Albert, arriving at Nimule the following day. 



''Mr. Roosevelt was kind enough to raise his hat and shake hands 

 with our great ladies, as he did when bidding Prince Joseph good- 

 bye. The Baganda who witnessed this were simply mad with joy 

 and the Mustawa Kissa (man of kindness) has won all our hearts." 



Thus wrote Mother Mary Paul, missionary sister in charge of 

 the Franciscan mission at Nsambya, Uganda, in a letter to a friend 

 in New York. 



" The day was perfect," she wrote, " and the whole hill was 



