TABLE OF CONTENTS 
Publisher’s Preface .... 33 
Author’s Preface ... 35 
CHAPTER I. 
OBJECT OF ROOSEVELT’S AFRICAN EXPEDITION. 
Roosevelt’s Exciting Encounter with a Lion—A Frightful Spectacle—How the Lion is 
Traced and Finally Brought at Bay—Roosevelt’s Narrow Escape from the Lion’s 
Teeth—His Marvelous Presence of Mind Saves Him. 41 
CHAPTER II. 
FROM MOMBASA TO THE WILDERNESS. 
Old and New Mombasa—Its Romantic History—Enthusiastic Reception to Roosevelt— 
Tropical Scenery—The Desert and the Jungle—The Railroad from Mombasa to 
Nairobi, the Chicago of East Africa.. 57 
CHAPTER III. 
LIFE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 
His Ancestors and Boyhood Days—College Studies—His Brilliant Political Career—On a 
Western Ranch—The Rough Rider—Stories and Anecdotes . 71 
CHAPTER IV. 
STORIES AND ANECDOTES ABOUT ROOSEVELT. 
How He Looked When a Boy—Was a Born Leader—The Old Dutch Reformed Church—How 
He Strengthened His Delicate Frame—First Love. 75 
CHAPTER V. 
BIG GAME WHICH ROOSEVELT HUNTED IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 
The Lion and Other Beasts of Prey—The Elephant and Other Huge Thick-Skinned Animals 
—The Rhinoceros and Hippopotamus—The Royal Game—The Buffalo, the Giraffe, the 
Camel and the African Antelope—Monkeys, Crocodiles, Snakes, and Other Venomous 
Reptiles . 83 
CHAPTER VI. 
ROOSEVELT’S HUNTING GROUNDS. 
British East Africa—The Chicago of East Africa—Tropical Scenery—Primeval Forests, 
Rocky Mountains and Running Streams—Wonders of the Animal and Vegetable King¬ 
doms—Pheasants, Doves, Monkeys—Flowers in All the Colors of the Rainbow—Man’s 
Cruelty Marring the Beauty of Nature.. 89 
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