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IN AFRICA 



tures. A little table stood at the open flaps of the 

 entrance and upon it were writing- materials, with 

 which Mr. Roosevelt already had started to write 

 up the elephant hunt of the day before. His motto 

 seems to be, "Do it now, if not sooner." 



I sat on his cot, Mrs. Akeley on a small tin trunk, 



The Pigskin Library 



and Stephenson on another. The colonel squatted 

 down on the floor cloth of the tent and began to 

 show us one by one the various literary treasures 

 from his pigskin library. The whole box of books 

 was so designed that it weighed only sixty pounds, 

 and was thus within the limit of a porter's load. 

 Some of the books were well stained from frequent 



