1 HE ROOSEVELT HUNT. 
WHY HE WENT TO EAST AFRICA. 
Outdoor ife and physical adventure have always seemed as natural and 
necessary to Theodore Roosevelt as political enterprise and manly public 
service. It is 10I on record that he has ever been fond of hunting small game, 
either in the Rocky Mountains or more settled-sections of the United States. 
The bracing air of the American wilds, the free sweep of the western moun¬ 
tains and plains, and the excitements of running down the grizzly, have been 
the means of collecting and maintaining that wonderful vitality which has so 
completely sustained him amid the burdens and perplexities of his public 
career. It has made him brave in war and fearless in attacking those whom 
he considered foes to the nation and society. 
But why did he go to Africa? Could he not have continued to hunt big 
game at home? It was impossible for a man of his temperament to do other¬ 
wise than start for Africa. He knew all about the big game of the United 
States. He commenced to hunt it, as a young man on a North Dakota ranch, 
continuing that phase of his career "over the western plains and mountains 
after he was President of the United States. As a young man, lie wrote his 
first book, “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman,” and has published four or five 
others, covering broader ground with the extension of his experience. What 
more natural than that, having exhausted the American subject, he should 
turn to the most famous hunting grounds for big game in the world? It is 
also quite conceivable that he wished to cut loose from the strenuous public 
life he had been experiencing for several years. There is, further, a special 
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