442 TRIUMPHANT CLOSE OF A THRILLING HUNT. 



tsetse fly, for, once well populated, they are now devoid of human 

 life through the sleeping sickness scourge. 



Colonel Roosevelt displayed the greatest concern in the care of 

 the party and native attendants. His personal interest was shown, 

 when one of the correspondents, who had been within touch of the 

 expedition from the very beginning, was forced to drop behind on 

 one of the long marches. He was finally brought up by porters, 

 who carried him many miles in a hammock, and after that dragged 

 him many more in a rickshaw. Colonel Roosevelt immediately 

 insisted that Dr. Mearns take the case in hand, and when the doctor 

 decided that an operation was necessary, the former President 

 volunteered to assist. 



INTERESTED IN NATIVES. 



Nothing pleased the ex-President more than the native guards 

 of honor which turned out at every conceivable place to greet his 

 coming. At one of the stations in Uganda a native contingent, 

 with two bands, one a fife and drimi and the other composed of 

 brasses, marched to a private house, where Colonel Roosevelt was 

 a guest at lunch, and drew up for review. 



The manner in which the training of the natives is carried out 

 interested Colonel Roosevelt greatly. He saw uneducated natives 

 taking and sending messages by Morse code and semaphore, with 

 flags, by lamp and heliograph. Although these signal men do not 

 know what the message means, yet they never make a mistake in 

 sending or receiving. 



Looking the picture of health, with physical fitness showing in 

 every line, Theodore Roosevelt arrived at Khartoum on March 14 

 from the long trail, over which he had spent nearly a year in the 

 pursuit of game. 



Thousands of persons had gathered to see him, and they 

 descried from afar the familiar form and more familiar smile — 

 made so even to those who had never before set eyes on the ex-Pre- 

 sident by the countless pictures of him which had been published. 



Later in the day there was a joyous reunion of Colonel and 

 Mrs. Roosevelt and their children, Kermit and Miss Ethel, in the 



