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friends whom they met in Africa, English and American hunters, and
a long train of native bearers and scouts, they visited the parts
of Africa richest in game, and killed lions, leopards, hyenas,
elephants, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, zebra, giraffe, buffalo, and
dozens of other kinds of animals. Mr. Roosevelt and Kermit shot
about a dozen trophies for themselves; otherwise nothing was
killed which was not intended as a museum specimen or for meat. No
useless butchery of animals was allowed; often at great
inconvenience and even danger, animals were avoided or driven off
rather than let them be killed needlessly. Some of the finest
groups of mounted animals in the country are now standing in the
National Museum, as a result of this trip.
They saw many wonderful sights. They saw a band of Nandi warriors,
fierce savages, naked, and armed only with shields and long
spears, attack and kill a big lion. Kermit Roosevelt took
photographs of most of the large game, coming up to close quarters
in order to get his pictures. He took two or three photographs of
a herd of wild elephants in the forest, going at great risk within
twenty-five yards of the herd to be sure to get a good view.
One day's hunting, which Mr. Roosevelt describes, shows what the
country was like, how full it was of all kinds of animals. Leaving
camp at seven in the morning they were out altogether over fifteen
hours.
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