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a distance of sixty yards. Two days after the red letter 30 th of April 
he bagged another lion at Wami, near Kapiti Plains, and upon this 
occasion his quick work at close range perhaps saved the lives of some 
of his mounted escort who were being charged by the infuriated beast. 
It is certain, with all the safeguards thrown around him, that he gave 
repeated instances, during the first week of the real hunt, of wonderful 
nerve, and that he aroused general admiration at his accurate marks¬ 
manship. 
The Roosevelt party remained on the great Pease ranch for about 
three weeks, during which period the Colonel killed four lions, two 
rhinos, two giraffes, two wildbeests and one Thompson’s gazelle, while 
Kermit bagged two lions, one cheetah, one giraffe and one wildbeest. 
While all the members of the expedition were bitten by ticks, none 
developed the dreaded fever. But several cases of smallpox were dis¬ 
covered among the porters. Otherwise, all was serene until the ex¬ 
pedition commenced temporarily to scatter. Mr. Roosevelt and his 
son prepared to hunt another kind of game on the famous Juja ranch 
of W. N. McMillan, east of Nairobi. There were especially sought 
the impalla, buffalo, wart hog and waterbuck, and the Roosevelts were 
accompanied to t ; he McMillan grounds by P. H. Percival, brother of 
Major Percival, one of the assistant game wardens, and Clifford Hill, 
who was once associated with the Pease ostrich farm and now, with 
his cousin, conducts one of his own. They are both great lion hunters 
as well as ostrich breeders; are English colonists who have never seen 
England; bred in South Africa; ex-soldiers of the Boer war and 
emigrants to East Africa. 
FROM KAPITI PLAINS TO NAIROBI. 
The country from Kapiti plains to Nairobi is a gradual melting into 
the more rolling and less seamed surface of the Athi river district. It 
is the approach to the region of fine plantations and the threshold of 
those wonderful grounds so interesting and thrilling both to the 
scientists and sportsmen of the Roosevelt party. Toward the east and 
the north, the land is simply a vast spill-over for the teeming game 
reserves to the south. 
At this stage of the Roosevelt expedition many rare birds as well 
as fine zoological specimens had been obtained for the Smithsonian 
Institution, and while they are being prepared for shipment to the 
