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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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



TWO N'jI£MPSI CATTLE HERDS : THE SMALL BOYS ALL CARRY 



SPEARS : NEAR BARINGO 



cided with that of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society. I was camped on the 

 foothills of Mount Kenia when a special 

 message was sent up by relays of runners 

 to tell me that the Pole had been discov- 



ered. But they named 

 the wrong man ; and, as 

 I had heard something 

 of his alleged mountain- 

 eering exploits in Alaska. 

 I declined to send back 

 a message of congratula- 

 tion. But about a week 

 afterwards I got another 

 message, telling me that 

 Peary had discovered 

 the Pole, and I said, 

 "That is genuine. I will 

 bank on Peary." So I 

 sent out my message of 

 congratulation ; and I 

 told the people who were 

 with me then to watch 

 and they would find that 

 the National Geographic 

 Society would look into 

 that business and declare 

 for Peary. I was rarely 

 more pleased than when 

 I found that that was 

 just what the Society 

 had done. For that rea- 

 son alone I should cer- 

 tainly have come here to 

 make my first report 

 upon the expedition. 



I spent several months 

 in this East African re- 

 gion, going north, where 

 the table-land sank lower 

 and lower until we got 

 to the dry, hot desert 

 country of the Guaso 

 Nyero, a n equatorial 

 river. Then we went 

 across Victoria Nyanza 

 into the low-lying very 

 fertile and very un- 

 healthy central African 

 region, Uganda. In East 

 Africa the natives were 

 pure savages, ranging 

 from the mere hunter- 

 tribe type, the so-called 

 'Ndorobo of the mountain forests, to 

 pastoral and agricultural tribes who live 

 out in the plains or on the forest border. 

 There were wide differences among these 

 tribes, some of them very significant. 



