NAIROBI AND MT. KENYA 
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tion a large consignment of specimens collected by the party had been 
shipped to the Smithsonian Institution, a second lot being sent to 
Mombasa to be shipped on the steamship Admiral on August 16. The 
casks and cases sent contained skins, bones and skulls of the following 
animals: Lion, seven; leopard, one; cheetah, one; spotted hyena, one; 
cape hartebeest, fourteen; white-bearded wildebeest, five; Neumann 
steinbuck, five; Kirk dik-dik, one; common waterbuck, three; Chanler 
reedbuck, four; Grant gazelle, nine; Thomson gazelle, five; eland, one ;j 
cape buffalo, four; giraffe, three; hippopotamus, one; wart-hog, six; 
Burchell zebra, seven; black rhinoceros, two; impalla, two. 
The cheetah is similar to a leopard, the wildebeest is the African 
gnoo and the hartebeest, steinbuck, dik-dik, impalla and eland are 
varieties of antelope. The beasts were shot under the licenses granted 
Colonel Roosevelt and his son Kermit, and were packed by Dr. Mearns. 
They formed a principal part of the contribution to science made by 
the expedition, and, variously prepared and preserved, will be of util¬ 
ity in the study of zoology for many years to come. 
On ascending the slopes of Mount Kenya the Roosevelt party 
found abundant evidence of the rapid progress of civilization in this 
region. The fertile soil of the mountain sides has attracted numbers 
of planters, from England, South Africa and elsewhere, and many 
plants suitable to the climate are being cultivated, with promise of 
large yield. 
After crossing the Tana River by aid of a rope ferry, they came 
within view of a most magnificent country. Before them rose in 
majesty Mount Kenya, occupying always the center of the picture, 
but never doing justice to its great height. It rises by long gentle 
slopes, more like a swelling of ground than a peak, from a broad up¬ 
land plain, and so gradual is the ascent that, but for the sudden out¬ 
crop of snow-clad rock which crowns the summit, no one would believe 
it over seventeen thousand feet high. It is its gradual rise that imparts 
so great a value to this noble mountain; for about its enormous base 
and upon its slopes, traversed by hundreds of streams of clear, ever- 
flowing water, there grows, or may grow, in successive, concentric 
belts, every kind of crop and forest known in the world, from the 
Equator to the Arctic circle. 
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