THROUGH THE PLEISTOCENE 7 



men who loved wild nature, and who were keen hunters 

 of big game; and almost every day, as we steamed over 

 the hot, smooth waters of the Red Sea and the Indian 

 Ocean, we would gather on deck around Selous to listen 

 to tales of those strange adventures that only come to the 

 man who has lived long the lonely life of the wilderness. 



Kermit Roosevelt and R. J. Cunin^hame preparing to 

 take pictures 



On April 21 we steamed into the beautiful and pictu- 

 resque harbor of Mombasa. Many centuries before the 

 Christian era, dhows from Arabia, carrying seafarers of 

 Semitic races whose very names have perished, rounded the 

 Lion's Head at Guardafui and crept slowly southward 

 along the barren African coast. Such dhows exist to-day 

 almost unchanged, and bold indeed were the men who first 

 steered them across the unknown oceans. They were men 

 of iron heart and supple conscience, who fronted inconceiv- 



