"AFRICAN GAME TRAILS" 957 



From "African Game Trails," by Theodore Roosevelt. Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons 



AS THE LION FELL HE GRIPPED A SPEAR-HEAD IN HIS JAWS WITH SUCH TREMENDOUS 

 FORCE THAT HE BENT IT DOUBLE (SEE PAGE 960) 



From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt 



embodiments of grace, and others whose 

 huge ungainUness is Hke that of a shape 

 in a nightmare." 



The preceding paragraphs, qtioted from 

 Mr Rooseveh's foreword to the narra- 

 tive of his African expedition, introduce 

 the reader to the wonder world where 

 he collected specimens for the National 

 Museum for nearly one year. The sights 

 which he saw are described so vividly 

 and accurately that even the most quiet 

 and unimaginative citizen thousands of 

 miles from the scene of Africa's grand- 

 eur can easily picture the extraordinary 

 contrasts which remain so fixed in Mr 

 Roosevelt's mind, and is also stirred by 

 the wondrous beauty and weird sur- 

 roundings which Mr Roosevelt so keenly 

 enjoyed. 



The book is an unusual contribution to 

 science, geography, literature, and adven- 

 ture. Naturalists will prize the accurate 



descriptions of the huge beasts by a hun- 

 ter-naturalist who for 30 years had been 

 studying the big game of America in 

 their native haunts, and who has con- 

 tributed much to a better appreciation of 

 the large animals of our continent. Mr 

 Roosevelt's acquaintance with big game 

 in America prepared him to observe the 

 great bulky creatures of Africa with eyes 

 quick to note and understand. He is the 

 first naturalist of much experience with 

 American big game to study all the large 

 species of Africa, so that his compari- 

 sons and observations form a particularly 

 valuable contribution to knowledge. 



The geographer will perhaps be even 

 more interested in the accounts of the 

 people and of the country. In the first 

 chapter, "Through the Pleistocene," he 

 reads of a land where wild man and wild 

 beast do not difi^er materially from what 

 they were in Europe many thousands of 



