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AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 
Mr. Roosevelt, Governor Jackson, Mr. Selous, and Dr, Mearns, riding 
in front of the engine on the way to Kapiti 
From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt 
already, for they might have walked out of the pages of Kip¬ 
ling. But I was not as well prepared for the corresponding 
and equally interesting types among the Germans, the plant¬ 
ers, the civil officials, the officers who had commanded, or 
were about to command, white or native troops; men of evi¬ 
dent power and energy, seeing whom made it easy to under¬ 
stand why German East Africa has thriven apace. They 
