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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photo by Kermit Roosevelt. Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons 



MR. ROOSEVELT AND BUFFALO COW IN PAPYRUS GRASS, SHOWING THE DANGER AND 

 DIFFICULTY OF BUFFALO HUNTING, WHEN YOUR GAME 

 MAY BE ONLY 5 YARDS AWAY 



5,000 or 6,000 people. To my mind it is 

 a very attractive little town. It is very 

 much scattered out, and the wild beasts 

 come right up to the edge of the town. 

 A friend, Mr. McMillan, lent us the use 

 of his house in town while we were stay- 

 ing there, and a leopard came up to the 

 piazza one night after one of the dogs. 

 On another occasion one of the local offi- 

 cials, a district commissioner, going out 

 to dinner on his bicycle in a dress suit, 



and naturally unarmed, almost ran over 

 a lion. Fortunately the lion was much 

 frightened and went away. On two 

 evenings in succession I dined at houses. 

 The dinner was much as it would be in 

 Washington, London, or anywhere else, 

 the ladies in pretty soft dresses and the 

 men in the usual evening garb of civiliza- 

 tion. The houses were about a quarter 

 of a mile apart, and a few days previous 

 a young lady, in the early evening, while 



