COLONEL ROOSEVELT A REMARKABLE HUNTER. 
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led exploring expeditions that accomplished work of considerable 
importance. 
Mr. and Mrs. McMillan have a wide reputation for generous 
hospitality. She has shared life in Africa with her husband and 
delights in the experience. 
The McMillan farm gets its name from the Ju and Ja rivers, 
between which it lies. It covers 20,000 acres of land, and is about 
thirty-five miles from Nairobi, one of the largest towns of the 
plateau which is included in the British East Africa. It is fenced 
in on three sides by wire netting, while on the fourth the river Athi 
forms a sufficient protection to its boundaries. 
Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit had good hunting luck 
on the ranch. Their bag included a waterbuck, an impalla and other 
varieties of antelope. All the skins were saved entire, and the expe¬ 
dition had now a total of sixty specimens representing twenty differ 
ent species. 
KERMIT KILLS A LEOPARD AT SIX PACES. 
Kermit Roosevelt, while on a trip, despatched a leopard at a 
distance of six paces. The animal already had mauled a beater and 
was charging Kermit when he fired the fatal shot. 
The impalla, or, as more commonly called, palla, is a species of 
South African antelope also known as a rodebok. It is the principal 
food for lions and leopards, and being of a suspicious nature, it is 
not only hard to shoot, but is likely to alarm other game by its shrill 
whistle when discovered. Only the male impalla has horns. 
At the ranch the Roosevelt party had heard stories of a fierce 
black maned lion that had been prowling around the ranch for 
several weeks, and had killed a score or more of zebras. Col. Roose¬ 
velt was particularly anxious to get a shot at this lion, as it was of 
a species not included in the lions that he has already killed. 
The Colonel spent two days in a futile chase of a black maned 
lion in the Mau hill country, but it was no such animal as the party 
desired. The entire party was in high spirits and confident of a 
record breaking hunt later on. 
Roosevelt started early one morning on the most hazardous 
