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ROOSEVELTS HUNTING GROUNDS. 
of the tropical trees or among the flowers, that glitter in all the colors of 
the rainbow. Deep ravines, filled by rushing streams and foaming cat¬ 
aracts open up below through glades of palms and vine-clad trees. 
Here and there along the route the traveler sees African plantations, 
with neat cottages and villages and other works of advancing civiliza¬ 
tion. The rubber, fibre and cotton raised on these productive farms will 
in the future supply the yet unmeasured demand of Europe and America 
GIRAFFES SEEN BY ROOSEVELT ALONG THE UGANDA RAILROAD. 
and become an inexhaustible source of wealth to this yet unbroken soil. 
About one hundred miles further west the train enters the barren 
waste known as the Taru desert. It is here where Eoosevelt from his 
commodious palace cars saw the prowling hyena, or the lion and the 
leopard seeking their prey among the herds of gazelles and antelopes 
that still remind the traveler of animal life. 
As the train has been climbing higher and higher the country loses 
its tropical aspect. Instead of the impenetrable jungle luxuriant forests 
