424 ON SAFARI IN SOTIK WILDERNESS AND LAKE NAIVASHA 
hunting party had no adventures of thrilling character there we shall 
not follow them again to that region. 
On August 5 Mr. Roosevelt returned to Nairobi, then the scene 
of an exciting event, for it was the week of the annual race meet and 
the ranchers from a long distance round had gathered for the festive 
occasion. It was made an event of special interest at this time by 
the presence of the recent President of the United States, a man of 
international reputation and who was made the guest of honor at 
many dinners. It was at one of these that he was presented with the 
silver and gold mounted rhinoceros and elephant feet described in 
Chapter XLIV. He enjoyed the races with the zest of a born sports¬ 
man and was very willing that Kermit should take part in several of 
the racing events. There was too much going on in town for him 
to trouble himself with hunting on this occasion, though he did make 
one field record in shooting hares at night with the aid of a bicycle 
lamp. 
Mr. Roosevelt's plans included a hunt with Lord Delamere in 
the Njoro region in November and a journey to Uganda in December, 
preliminary to his seeking the Nile in the following February. On 
October 20 he reached Naivasha in company with Cunninghame, the 
Scotch scout, having just finished an extended hunt. Those who 
Imet him found him extraordinarily embrowned from the rays of the 
African sun, but in the pink of health, and he and his son alike proud 
and delighted in the stories they had to tell of their prowess in each 
bringing down an elephant when no professional hunter was with 
them. 
