THROUGH THE PLEISTOCENE 



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have been fuller of wild adventure than the life of a viking 

 leader of the ninth century. One of the public officials 

 whom I met at the Governor's table was Major Hinde. 

 Hs had at one time served under the government of the 

 Congo Free State; and, at a crisis in the fortunes of the 



Mr. Roosevelt saying jjood-by in the Mombasa station 

 From a photograph by Kerinit Roosevelt 



State, when the Arab slave-traders bade fair to get the 

 upper hand, he was one of the eight or ten white men, repre- 

 senting half as many distinct nationalities, who overthrew 

 the savage soldiery of the slave-traders and shattered beyond 

 recovery the Arab power. They organized the wild pagan 

 tribes just as their Arab foes had done; they fought in a 

 land where deadly sickness struck down victor and van- 

 quished with ruthless impartiality; they found their com- 



