THE ROOSEVELT HUNT . 
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dance of provisions and a big medicine chest. “Roughing it” is all right; but 
the hunter will get enough of that, with probable attacks on life and limb, in 
the natural order of his trip, without endangering his health and sapping his 
strength by exposure to tropical dew, rain and insects and the eating of un¬ 
healthful foods. Native villages or railway points are usually relied upon for 
eggs, flour and vegetables, but all modern parties, like the Roosevelt expedi¬ 
tion, now lay in a good supply of sugar and canned meats and tomatoes. The 
medicine chest must contain, above all, an abundant supply of lint bandages, 
besides the usual antidotes for poisons and powerful cauterizers to prevent 
fatal results from possible wounds inflicted by the terrific carrion claws of 
His Royal Highness, the King of Beasts. Brandy and champagne are also 
considered desirable as medical supplies, but the true sportsman knows how 
necessary it is to confine all liquors to their legitimate province, for the moment 
they are taken as indulgences the capacity of the drinkers for endurance and 
keen work is materially lessened. 
SCOPE OF THE ROOSEVELT HUNTING GROUNDS. 
All such preparations having been made by the great expedition, of 
which Mr. Roosevelt was the most distinguished member, the party boarded 
a modern railway train drawn by an American Baldwin engine and pulled out 
from Mombasa for the Kapiti plains, the districts adjoining the headwaters 
of the Athi and Tana rivers and the Mount Kenia region—which were to be 
the main hunting grounds thrown open to the ex-President. This great 
district embracing every variety of African country—plain, jungle, swamp, 
forest and hill—not only swarms with game, both big and small, but contains 
fifty varieties of the larger species, and is therefore probably unexcelled any¬ 
where in the world. It lies northeast of the railroad, with Nairobi as its 
central station, and is almost midway along the line, which extends 584 miles 
from Mombasa to Port Florence, the terminus, on Lake Victoria Nyanza. To 
be quite accurate Nairobi is 327 miles from the Indian Ocean, but this central 
section of the Roosevelt hunting grounds extends considerably north and far 
east of that city, the headquarters of the Uganda railway. ’This is the para¬ 
dise of the modern African hunter, not only because of the abundance and 
variety of great game, but from the fact that several of the famous sportsmen 
of the world have established there magnificent ranches, or private hunting 
grounds, on which they entertain with the lavishness befitting their rank. 
Among them are the splendid Heatley, Pease and McMillan estates, the mas- 
