WILD MAN AND WILD BEAST IN AFRICA 



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Photo by Akeley. Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons 



AN UNUSUAL TRAP: A HYENA CAUGHT IN THE BELLY OF A DEAD ELEPHANT 



"The hyena, which was swollen with elephant meat, had gotten inside the huge body, and 

 had then bitten a hole through the abdominal wall of tough muscle and thrust his head 

 through. The wedge-shaped head had slipped through the hole all right, but the muscle had 

 then contracted, and the hyena was fairly caught, with its body inside the elephant's belly, 

 and its head thrust out through the hole. We took several photos of the beast in its queer 

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



nate position to the negroid agricultural 

 people, who form the bulk of the king- 

 dom, and they are very distinctly less 

 advanced in civilization. 



The English have been wise in the way 

 they have cared for these people. They 

 •have developed them along their own 

 lines, instead of trying to turn them into 

 something entirely different. On the 

 whole the effect of white influence on 

 the native tribes shows to better effect 

 in Uganda than in any other part of 

 Africa south of the Sudan that I saw. 



Many of the chiefs are distinctly semi- 

 civilized, and some of them write Eng- 

 lish well. Two or three have kept up 

 quite a correspondence with me since I 



left. One of them sent me a gift of four 

 hippopotamus tusks and a leopard's skin, 

 together with a letter of condolence on 

 account of the death of King Edward ! 

 This particular chief had done every- 

 thing he could for me while I was at 

 Lake Albert Nyanza. I had little to give 

 him, as I had exhausted about all my 

 presents. However, I still had a watch 

 with the hands and the figures of the 

 face picked out with radium, so that one 

 could tell the time at night. I gave him 

 this watch, and he and all his compan- 

 ions spent the entire night looking at it. 

 Since then he has been one of the most 

 grateful people I have ever known, and 

 has written me twice. I try to think of 



