WHERE ROOSEVELT WILL HUNT 



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it had escaped into the almost impene- 

 trable forest." 



Now this giant pig was actually dis- 

 covered first of all in Stanley's Ituri for- 

 est by N. E. Copeland. Afterward a dif- 

 ferent species was brought to light in 

 East Africa jointly and simultaneously 

 by a civilian, Mr. Hobley, and an army 

 officer, Captain Meinertzhager. Then it 

 was rediscovered again by Baron Mau- 

 rice de Rothschild in the Nandi forests. 

 Finally a third species was found by Mr 

 George L. Bates in the Kameruns. 



I believe President Roosevelt is anx- 

 ious to secure for science an undoubted 

 specimen of the white or square-lipped 

 rhinoceros, which has been reported to 

 exist in the northwestern parts of British 

 East Africa. The white rhinoceros for 

 a long time was thought to be confined 

 in its distribution to Africa south of the 

 Zambesi, but where, owing to the some- 

 what reckless slaughter of wild game in 

 the years before we appreciated the value 

 of them, had become nearly if not quite 

 extinct. A few, however, still linger in 

 Zululand, perhaps in the vicinity of the 

 upper Zambesi. It is interesting now to 

 know that this creature has been found 

 in western Uganda and on the White 

 Nile. There is an intimate connection 

 between the fauna of extreme south 

 Africa and that of the regions of the 

 Nile Valley. And of course there is a 

 still more interesting connection between 

 the fauna of today in eastern Africa and 

 the pliocene and early pleistocene fauna 

 of Europe as far north as southern Eng- 

 land, in days when man was already 

 man and hunted these creatures such as 

 you would see them being hunted today 

 by negro hunters. Among the species of 

 rhinoceros inhabiting Europe in the 

 pleistocene were probably representa- 

 tives of the pointed-lipped form and of 

 the square-lipped species. 



PICTURESQUE NATIVES AROUND LAKE 

 VICTORIA 



The people inhabiting the settlements 

 around Victoria Nyanza will be probably 

 for a year or so still a source of amuse- 

 ment to the excursionists whom the 



Uganda railway will bring from the east 

 coast of Africa to the Victoria Nyanza; 

 for they will see before them coal-black, 

 handsomely formed negroes and ne- 

 gresses without a shred of clothing, 

 though with many adornments in the way 

 of hippopotamus teeth, bead necklaces, 

 earrings, and leglets of brass. They are 

 very picturesque as they strut about the 

 streets in their innocent nudity, decked 

 with barbaric ornaments. 



The men wear not one earring, but 

 fifteen ! Holes are pierced all round the 

 outer edge of the ear, and in these are in- 

 serted brass fillets, like melon seeds in 

 shape, to which are attached coarse blue 

 beads of large size and dull appearance. 

 These beads the knowing tourist should 

 collect while they can be purchased, as 

 they are of mysterious origin and great 

 interest. They are not, as he might 

 imagine at first sight, of European manu- 

 facture, but have apparently reached this 

 part of the world from Nubia in some 

 very ancient trading intercourse between 

 Egypt and these countries of the upper 

 Nile. As the figures thus exhibited are 

 usually models for a sculptor, this nudity 

 is blameless and not to be discouraged; 

 moreover, it characterizes the most moral 

 people in the Uganda protectorate. 



This ebon statuary lives in pretty lit- 

 tle villages, which are clusters of straw 

 huts (glistening gold in the sun's rays), 

 encircled with fences of aloes, which 

 have red, green, and white mottled leaves, 

 and beautiful columns and clusters of 

 coral-red stalks and flowers. There are 

 a few shady trees that from their appear- 

 ance might very well be elms but are 

 not, and some extraordinary euphorbias, 

 which grow upright with the trunk of a 

 respectable tree and burst into uncounted 

 sickly green spidery branches. Herds of 

 parti-colored goats and sheep, and cattle 

 that are black and white and fawn color, 

 diversify these surroundings with their 

 abrupt patches of light and color. 



They belong to the better class of 

 Bantu negroes, of that immense group of 

 African peoples which has dominated the 

 whole southern third of Africa from the 

 regions of the White Nile and Victoria 



