CONTENTS, 
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the Most Famous Kingdom of Africa—A King Glorious in Trinkets— 
People Prostrating Themselves Before Their Monarch—The Whims of a 
Despot—Taxes Levied on Furniture—Killing Husbands to Get Their 
Wives—Strange and Savage Customs—A Nation Famous as Elephant 
Hunters and Men Stealers. 274 
CHAPTER XIX. 
Greatest Feat on Record—Journey Across the Continent to the Congo—An 
Army of Followers to Carry the Outfit—Journey to the Victoria Nyanza— 
Speculation as to the Sources of the Nile—Dangers of Traveling in the 
Dark Continent—Crawling Through Jungles. 292 
CHAPTER XX. 
Roosevelt a Skilful and Untiring Hunter—Off for the Sotik District—Two 
Days and a Half in the Scorching Sun—Hears His Prowess as a Lion 
Killer Told in Song and Sketch—In Search of a White Rhinoceros. .. 313 
CHAPTER XXL 
Roosevelt Hunts on Lake Naivasha—Adds a Bull Hippopotamus to His Col¬ 
lection—Ammunition Used by Colonel Roosevelt , in Africa—Exciting 
Combat with Hippopotamus. 333 
CHAPTER XXH. 
Frederic Courtenay Selous—A Hunter Without a Peer—Friend, Companion 
and Guide to Colonel Roosevelt—Colonel Roosevelt’s Estimate of the Man— 
The Fatal Sleeping Sickness of the Dark Continent—A ‘‘ Safari ” and what 
it Means. 347 
CHAPTER XXIII. 
Roosevelt and His Party Suffer from Hunger—Without Food and Water 
for a Whole Day—Supplies Rushed Forward to Their Relief—Bags Two 
Rhinoceroses and a Wildebeeste—Kermit Gets a Female Hippopotamus to 
the Delight of His Father. 365 
