ROOSEVELT HUNTING GROUNDS 
Eastward from Nairobi, between the Athi and Tana rivers and for 
miles around Mount Kenia, is the great region which has well been termed 
the paradise of hunters for big game. It is a country so varied in surface 
and soil—presenting jungles, dry plains, grassy hills, rocky steeps, wooded 
streams—that no variety of famous game is without a home and retreat. 
Even the monkeys have their inaccessible grounds in the region of Mount 
Kenia. 
NAIROBI AS THE GREAT OUTFITTING POINT. 
Naturally, Nairobi is the central point for the final organization and out¬ 
fitting of the hunting expeditions, or caravan parties (safari), and in the 
busy season (say from December to March) it is nothing unusual to see two 
or three starting out daily. The caravans are also arriving from the East and 
Southeast, some even overhauling the train and obtaining more modern trans¬ 
port than afoot, the porters loaded down with antelope meat, elephant tusks, 
lion skins, and other trophies of the chase. On the same train which pulls 
into Nairobi may be a refrigerator car packed with ice, fresh sea fish and 
foreign fruits and vegetables. These are probably consigned R> some Euro¬ 
pean or Hindu merchant—most likely the latter—who will easily dispose of 
his stock to the hotels, the thousand or more English, German and American 
residents, or the aristocratic and, at the same time, democratic plantation 
owners to the East. 
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