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discovered by the explorer Grant. “Thompsoni” 
is applied to the gazelle discovered by Thompson. 
“Cokei” is the name given the hartebeest discovered 
by Coke, and so on. If Colonel Roosevelt had dis¬ 
covered a new variation of any of the species it 
would be called the “Roosevelti-.” 
The colonel said that he had not discovered any 
new animals, but that Heller, he thought, had 
found some new variety of mouse or mole on 
Mount Kenia. He supposed that it would be called 
the Mole Helleri. 
He then told about an exciting adventure they 
had with a hippo two nights before. Away in the 
night the camp was aroused by screams coming 
from the big swamp in front. Kongoni, his gun- 
bearer, rushed in and shouted: “Lion eat porter!” 
The colonel grabbed his gun and dashed out in the 
darkness. Kermit and one or two others, hastily 
armed, also appeared, and they charged down the 
swamp, where a hippo had made its appearance in 
the neighborhood of a terrified porter. Kermit 
dimly made out the hippo and shot at it, but it 
disappeared and could not be found again. 
After luncheon the colonel said, “Now, I want 
to inflict my pigskin library on you,” and together 
we went into his tent and he opened an oilcloth-cov¬ 
ered, aluminum-lined case that was closely packed 
with books, nearly all of which were bound in pig¬ 
skin. It was a present from his sister, Mrs. Douglas 
Robinson. The tent was lined with red, evidently 
Kermit’s darkroom when he was developing pic- 
