426 ROOSEVELTS TOURNEY FROM UGANDA DOWN THE NILE 
journey back to civilization by way of the famous Nile, long one of 
the greatest of geographical mysteries but now known throughout its 
full extent from Ripon Falls to the Delta. Its discovery is one of 
the great triumphs of modern exploration. Colonel Roosevelt had 
reached Uganda after a December hunt with Lord Delamere at Njoro, 
which event brought to an end his hunting experience in British 
East Africa. This had been a long one, extending over nearly eight 
months, and had afforded him an opportunity to cope with nearly all 
the great game of the earth which remained after his American ex¬ 
periences in the hunting field. We must except in this the Bengal 
tiger and the Polar bear, animals worthy of his prowess, with which 
he will perhaps make acquaintance in coming years. That the love 
of hunting and of facing danger in the open was the main incentive 
to the African outing of our ex-President no one will doubt, but it was 
made conducive to science in supplying the Smithsonian and National 
museums with splendid specimens of all the great and nearly all the 
small African mammals, greatly adding to the value of their zoological 
collections. 
Completing this long hunt by mid-December, the embrowned 
adventurer took the steamer at Port Florence for Uganda. Of the 
character of this steamer and its equipment for the comfort of its 
passengers we have already spoken on page 117, and need but say 
here that Mr. Roosevelt found as civilized appointments in this pioneer 
craft in the center of East Africa as he could have found in the floating 
palaces of one of our American lakes. That he enjoyed the trip across 
this splendid inland sea, with its cool climate, its fine scenery, its 
beautiful islands, goes without saying. Through the journey from Port 
Florence to Entebbe presents but a partial glimpse of the lake and its 
surroundings, it is an illuminating one, and Roosevelt, with his warm 
love of nature in her every mood, enjoyed it with his usual outspoken 
zest. 
As for Uganda—beautiful Uganda, as it is commonly termed— 
an anchorite could scarce fail to view it with enthusiasm, and a nature 
lover like Theodore Roosevelt was sure to greet it with warm expres¬ 
sions of delight. Entebbe presented itself to him with a glow of floral 
beauty, the native adornment of that tropic realm to which winter 
