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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photo by J. Alden Loring. Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons 

 TOWING BULL HIPPO ASHORE : LAKE NAVAISHA 



particular pleasure in working with men 

 who approached their work in such a 

 spirit. 



I should also, in fairness, mention an- 

 other member of the Roosevelt family, 

 my son Kermit, who did some excellent 

 photographic work. Indeed, all the 

 members of the expedition except myself 

 did good photographic work. Among 

 the photographs we brought back there 

 were the best photographs of wild ele- 

 phants that have ever been taken, and the 

 only photographs of living white rhinoce- 

 ros that have ever been taken." 



Messrs. Newland and Tarlton, of 

 Nairobi, fitted out the expedition, and 

 did this work excellently, and no better 

 guides and managers for such an expe- 

 dition could have been found in all 

 Africa than Messrs. Cuninghame and 

 Tarlton, the former of whom was with 

 us throughout the trip, and the latter 

 while we were in East Africa. 



* Several of Mr. Kermit Roosevelt's photo- 

 graphs of wild elephant and white rhino were 

 published in the November number of this 

 Magazine, through the courtesy of Charles 

 Scribner's Sons. 



I, of course, felt that I was bound to 

 make a success of the trip, because in a 

 certain sense my companions and myself 

 were representing the United States. I 

 think I can say that no other expedition 

 of the kind has ever come back from 

 Africa or Asia with a better collection of 

 specimens than we brought back, the 

 collection being especially good in the 

 large game animals. The series of 

 skins, and in many cases of skeletons, of 

 the square-mouthed rhinoceros, reticu- 

 lated giraffe, giant eland, bongo, north- 

 ern sable antelope, white-withered lech- 

 w r e antelope, and Vaughn's kob, for in- 

 stance, are unrivaled in any European 

 museum. We brought back, I think, 

 all told, some 14,000 specimens of mam- 

 mals, birds, reptiles, fishes, etc. 



Let me repeat, that I cannot over- 

 emphasize the part my companions 

 played in the expedition. The chief 

 value of the expedition came not from 

 what I shot, but from what the natural- 

 ists, under the direction of Mr. Walcott, 

 who were with me, did in preserving 

 and collecting specimens. It is not a 

 very hard thing to go off into the wilder- 



