"AFRICAN GAME TRAILS' 



959 



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

 A WHITE RHINO AND CALF 



The calf, which was old enough to shift for itself, refused to leave the body. From a 



photograph by Kermit Roosevelt 



years ago, in the age when our ancestors 

 in Europe went absolutely naked and 

 lived in constant dread of furious beasts. 

 Into this land European civilization is 

 rushing with . tremendous sweep and 

 reaping big commercial profits. It i$ a 

 strange sight as the train, drawn by an 

 American Baldwin locomotive, rolls into 

 the towns to see groups of naked savages 

 with oddly shaved heads and filed teeth, 

 armed with primitive bows and arrows, 

 and women whose ideas of the require- 

 ments of dress are fully satisfied by 

 masses of bronze or copper wire wound 

 tightly around the arms and legs. 



''One group of women, nearly nude, 

 had their upper arms so tightly bound 

 with masses of bronze and copper wire 

 that their muscles were completely mal- 

 formed. So tightly was the wire wrapped 

 round the upper third of the upper arm 

 that it was reduced to about one-half of 

 its normal size, and the muscles could 



only play, and that in deformed fashion, 

 below this unyielding metal bandage. 

 Why the arms did not mortify it was 

 hard to say, and their freedom of use 

 was so hampered as to make it difficult 

 to understand how men or women whose 

 whole lives are passed in one or another 

 form of manual labor could inflict upon 

 themselves such crippling and pointless 

 punishment." 



Kermit Roosevelt's photographs of the 

 big game are unusually fine. Those of 

 the elephant herd, of which one is 

 printed on page 956 of this Magazine, 

 are better than any of wild elephants that 

 have ever been taken, while those of the 

 white, or square-nosed, rhino (see pages 

 958, 959) are, so far as we know, the 

 first live pictures of this rare animal that 

 have ever been made. To photograph 

 the elephant requires especial courage 

 and ability. The huge beast is exceed- 

 ingly wary and suspicious and easily 



