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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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

 PORTERS CARRYING PELVIS OP PlRST ELEPHANT 



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



SULUMANI, MY TENT BOY, AND CUNINGHAME'S RECORD 



ROBERTSI 



I shall always keep in 

 my mind the memory of 

 one evening when I had 

 killed a lioness. The 

 porters with me were, 

 as they always are, very 

 much excited over the 

 killing of a lion, for the 

 lions are often man- 

 eaters, and kill many of 

 the natives, so that the 

 natives like to recipro- 

 cate and see the lions 

 killed. I had killed this 

 lioness quite late in the 

 evening, and the men 

 asked permission to 

 carry it in whole to 

 camp. I did not think 

 they could do it, but I 

 let them try. They 

 started carrying the 

 lioness in relays. It was 

 a very heavy load. After 

 a while they found that 

 it was heavier than they i 

 had thought. We were 

 about ten miles from 

 camp, and we had gone 

 only about a mile when 



