ROOSEVELT HUNTING GROUNDS 



Eastward from Nairobi, between the Athi and Tana rivers and for 

 miles around Mount Kenia, is the great region which has well been termed 

 the paradise of hunters for big game. It is a country- so varied in surface 

 and soil — presenting jungles, dry plains, grassy hills, rocky steeps, wooded 

 streams — that no variety of famous game is without a home and retreat. 

 Even the monkeys have their inaccessible grounds in the region of Mount 

 Kenia. 



NAIROBI AS THE GREAT OUTFITTING POINT. 



Naturally, Nairobi is the central point for the final organization and out- 

 fitting of the hunting expeditions, or caravan parties (safari), and in the 

 busy season (say from December to March) it is nothing unusual to see two 

 or three starting out daily. The caravans are also arriving from the East and 

 Southeast, some even overhauling the train and obtaining more modern trans- 

 port than afoot, the porters loaded down with antelope meat, elephant tusks, 

 lion skins, and other trophies of the chase. On the same train which pulls 

 into Nairobi may be a refrigerator car packed with ice, fresh sea fish and 

 foreign fruits and vegetables. These are probably consigned to some Euro- 

 pean or Hindu merchant — most likely the latter — w'ho will easily dispose of 

 his stock to the hotels, the thousand or more English, German and American 

 residents, or the aristocratic and, at the same time, democratic plantation 



owners to the East. 



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