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AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 
ploring trip, save that, in memory of my days in the West, I 
included in each provision box a few cans of Boston baked 
beans, California peaches, and tomatoes. We had plenty 
of warm bedding, for the nights are cold at high altitudes, 
even under the equator. While hunting I wore heavy 
shoes, with hobnails or rubber soles; khaki trousers, the 
knees faced with leather, and the legs buttoning tight from 
the knee to below the ankle, to avoid the need of leggings; 
a khaki-colored army shirt; and a sun helmet, which I 
wore in deference to local advice, instead of my beloved 
and far more convenient slouch hat. My rifles were an 
army Springfield, 30-calibre, stocked and sighted to suit 
myself; a Winchester 405; and a double-barrelled 500-450 
Holland, a beautiful weapon presented to me by some 
English friends.* 
* Mr. E. N. Buxton took the lead in the matter when he heard that I intended 
making a trip after big game in Africa. I received the rifle at the White House, 
while I was President. Inside the case was the following list of donors: 
LIST OF ZOOLOGISTS AND SPORTSMEN WHO ARE DONORS OF A 
DOUBLE ELEPHANT RIFLE TO THE HON. THEODORE 
ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT U. S. A. 
IN RECOGNITION OF HIS SERVICES ON BEHALF OF THE PRESERVATION OF SPECIES 
BY MEANS OF NATIONAL PARKS AND FOREST RESERVES, AND BY OTHER 
MEANS 
E. N. Buxton, Esq. 
Rt. Hon. Lord Avebury, D.C.L. (“The Pleasures of Life,” etc.) 
Major-Gen. Sir F. Reginald Wingate, K.C.B. (Governor-General of the 
Soudan.) 
Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 
Hon. N. C. Rothschild. 
The Earl of Lonsdale. (Master of Hounds.) 
Sir R. G. Harvey, Bart. 
The Rt. Hon. Lord Curzon of Kedleston, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E. 
St. George Littledale, Esq. 
Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, F.R.S., F.Z.S. (Secretary of the Zoological Soc.) 
C. E. Green, Esq. (Master of Essex Hounds.) 
F. C. Selous, Esq. (“A Hunter’s Wanderings,” etc.) 
Count Blucher. 
