482 A LION-SPEARING SAFARI. 



but another instance of " Roosevelt luck " which had attended the 

 American hunters and scientists, and that they were to be congra- 

 tulated upon their escape from the dreaded fever that had followed 

 in the wake of the long hunt. 



At a camp joining that occupied by the Americans at Gondokoro 

 an English sportsman was seriously ill following a trip to Kampala, 

 the capital of Uganda, and one of the places at which the Smith- 

 sonian scientific expedition stopped. 



The district commissioner of Gondokoro, the British officials of 

 vrhich were most active in entertaining their American guests, had 

 been stricken wath the fever and was confined to his bed. 



Dr. Prosch had done missionary work in Africa for ten years. 

 During this time his health had been gradually undermined by the 

 debilitating climate. His collapse was attributed to a weakened 

 condition that could not resist an attack that he might have survived 

 a few years before. 



DR. PROSCH A MAN OF LIBERAL IDEAS. 



At the luncheon Dr. Prosch seemed in excellent spirits and had 

 a lengthy talk with the ex-President about missionary w-ork, prov- 

 ing himself a man of liberal ideas. Dr. Prosch and Colonel Roose- 

 velt expected to meet again in Paris. 



Later Dr. Prosch collapsed and died within five minutes. At 

 sunset he w-as buried on the very spot where he died, bugles sound- 

 ing taps over the newly-made grave. 



When Colonel Roosevelt and the others of his party left on the 

 steamer Dal they were all in good health and little the worse for their 

 rough experience. 



The Colonel considers that the killing of the giant elands 

 in his excursion along the upper reaches of the Nile was a fitting- 

 ending to a marvelously successful trip. The results generally from 

 the standpoint of the hunter and the scientist have exceeded all ex- 

 pectations. 



Colonel Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, have killed some five 

 hundred specimens of large mammals. The bag includes the follow- 

 ing: Seventeen lions, eleven eiephants, ten bufifaloes, ten black rhino- 



