HUNTING THE ANTELOPE 



Colonel Roosevelt Bags a Gnu, or Wildebeest, on Sir Alfred Pease's Estate — Excite- 

 ment and Danger of the Hunt — His First Victim on African Soil — Facts About 

 the Many Varieties of Antelope That Crowd the East African Velt. 



Riding on the cowcatcher along the Uganda Railroad Colonel Roosevelt 

 almost seemed to be passing through a zoological garden, so numerous were 

 the representatives of the East African fauna that could be seen from the 

 train. Zebras, gazelles, giraffes, and water bucks were either quietly grazing 

 on both sides of the track or crossing it only a few hundred yards ahead of 

 the train. Agile monkeys were swinging in the branches of the giant trees 

 that formed groves and copses here and there on the velt, and now and then 

 a lightfooted antelope, scared by the steam whistle, would startle and rush 



From photo. 



NATIVE BEARERS CARRYING WATERBUCK TO CAMP, WHERE THEY WILL HAVE A GOOD FEAST. 



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