ILLUSTRATIONS 
Mr. Roosevelt and one of his big lions. 
Photogravure from a photograph by Kermit RooseveCt. 
. Frontispiece 
FACING PAGE 
Map showing Mr. Roosevelt’s route and hunting trips in Africa . . vii 
A herd of zebra and hartebeest..28 
One of the interesting features of African wild life is the close association 
and companionship so often seen between two totally different species 
of game. 
Before he could get quite all the way round in his headlong rush to 
reach us, I struck him with my left-hand barrel.92 
Photogravure from a drawing by Philip R. Goodwin. 
Without any warning, out he came and charged straight at Kermit, 
who stopped him when he was but six yards ojff.116 
Photogravure from a drawing by Philip R. Goodwin. 
Mr. Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt with the first buffalo.138 
It was not a nice country in which to be charged by the herd, and for 
a moment things trembled in the balance.142 
Photogravure from a drawing by Philip R. Goodwin. 
Group—Waxbills. Courser. Elephant shrew. Springhaas. Dikdik. 
Serval kitten. Banded mongoose. Colobus monkey.156 
The safari fording a stream. 166 
Giraffe at home. .172 
Group—^A rhino family. Rhino surveying the safari. “In the middle 
of the African plain, deep in prehistoric thought”.174 
Wildebeest at home.180 
Two bulls may suddenly drop to their knees and for a moment or two 
fight furiously. 
Group—^The wounded lioness ready to charge. The wounded lioness . 190 
He came on steadily, ears laid back and uttering terrific coughing grunts . 194 
Photogravure from a drawing by Philip R. Goodwin. 
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