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ROOSEVELT is not only a great Statesman^ 
also tbe most Renowned Hunter in tbe World. 
His Famous Voyage, beginning at New York, March 23, 1909— 
nineteen days after he had turned the reins of Government over 
to his successor—took him directly into the Jungles of Africa, 
inhabited by the wildest of wild beasts and wild men. 
When it was announced that our distinguished Ex-President 
was to undertake this expedition, he was pronounced by college 
professors and others, through the press of the United States and 
Europe, as foolhardy in contemplating such a hazardous trip. From 
one end of the country to the other the newspapers printed accounts 
of the dangers he would encounter, and it was widely predicted 
that Theodore Roosevelt could never return alive. 
Members of his family, including his old nurse who cared for 
him when a child, admonished him of the dangers of his undertak¬ 
ing. With Mrs. Roosevelt he called at the home of his governess 
at her Grammercy Park home to say good bye. The old woman, 
with tears in her eyes, kissed him good bye and cautioned him to 
be careful. 
''I have read in the papers,’’ said she, ''such awful things; that 
you will surely catch an incurable fever, of the 'sleeping sickness;’ 
that a deadly reptile will bite you; that an African insect will sting 
you to death; that the savage men will massacre you; that the 
treacherous leopard will spring upon you without warning; that the 
ferocious lion will surely get you, and Oh!” To this the undis¬ 
turbed man of iron merely smiled and bid the constant companion 
of his childhood days an affectionate farewell. 
The Hamburg-American Line had made special preparations 
in fitting up the same suite of rooms on the steamship Hamburg 
that the Kaiser had occupied on his famous Mediterranean voyage. 
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