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COLONEL ROOSEVELT A REMARKABLE HUNTER. 
specimens of the former. Major Mearns occupied his time in shoot¬ 
ing birds. 
While at the mission Ex-President Roosevelt made a thorough 
inspection of the institution, and afterward had luncheon with forty 
of the missionaries and their wives and settlers in the country. The 
Rev. Mr. Hurlburt, in a speech, Avelcomed the American. 
In replying, Col Roosevelt said: 'd have a peculiar feeling 
for the settlers working in this new country, as they remind me of 
my own people working in the western States, where they know no 
difference between easterner, westerner, northerner, or southerner, 
and pay no heed to creed or birthplace.'' 
CoL Roosevelt remained over night at the mission and started 
for the Sotik district the following day. 
