THE COLONEL KILLS THREE ELEPHANTS 15D 



discovered by the explorer Grant. "Thompson!" 

 is applied to the gazelle discovered by Thompson. 

 "Cokei" is the name given the hartebeest discovered 

 by Coke, and so on. If Colonel Roosevelt had dis- 

 covered a new variation of any of the species it 

 would be called the "Roosevelti ." 



The colonel said that he had not discovered any 

 new animals, but that Heller, he thought, had 

 found some new variety of mouse or mole on 

 Mount Kenia. He supposed that it would be called 

 the Mole Helleri. 



He then told about an exciting adventure they 

 had with a hippo two nights before. Away in the 

 night the camp was aroused by screams coming 

 from the big swamp in front. Kongoni, his gun- 

 bearer, rushed in and shouted: "Lion eat porter!" 

 The colonel grabbed his gun and dashed out in the 

 darkness. Kermit and one or two others, hastily 

 armed, also appeared, and they charged down the 

 swamp, where a hippo had made its appearance in 

 the neighborhood of a terrified porter. Kermit 

 dimly made out the hippo and shot at it, but it 

 disappeared and could not be found again. 



After luncheon the colonel said, "Xow, I want 

 to inflict my pigskin library on you," and together 

 we went into his tent and he opened an oilcloth-cov- 

 ered, aluminum-lined case that was closely packed 

 with books, nearly all of which were bound in pig- 

 skin. It was a present from his sister, Mrs. Douglas 

 Robinson. The tent was lined with red, evidently 

 Kennit's darkroom when he was developing pic- 



