Hunting Big Game In The Wilds Of Africa - Containing Thrilling Adventures Of The Famous Roosevelt Expedition - The Whole Comprising A Vast Treasury Of All That Is Marvelous And Wonderful In Darkest Africa (Paperback)

HUNTING BIG GAME IN THE WILDS OF AFRICA CONTAINING THRILLING ADVENTURES OF THE FAMOUS ROOSEVELT EXPEDITION In Search of Lions, Rhinoceri, Elephants, Hippopotami and othe Ferocious Beasts of the Jungle and Plain, INCLUDING JOURNEYS IN UNKNOWN LANDS, MIRACULOUS ESCAPES, CURIOUS CUSTOMS OF SAVAGE RACES, AND MARVELOUS DlSCOVERIES IN THE DARK CONTINENT TOGETHER WITH GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF BEAUTIFUL SCENERY, FERTILE VALLEYS, VAST FORESTS, MIGHTY RIVERS AND CATARACTS, INLAND SEAS, MINES OF UNTOLD WEALTH, Etc., Etc. THE WHOLE COMPRISING A Vast Treasury of all that is Marvelous and Wonderful inl Darkest Africa -- INTRODUCTION -- THEODORE ROOSEVELT is not only a great Statesman, but he is also the most Renowned Hunter in the World. His Famous Voyage, beginning at New York, March 23, gog nineteen days after he had turned the reins of Government over to his successor-took him directly into the Jungles of Africa, inhabited by tke wildest of wild beasts and wild men. When it was announced that our distinguished Ex-President was to undertake this expedition, he was pronounced by college professols and-others, through the press of the United States and Europe, as foolhardy in contemplating such a hazardous trip. From one end of the country to the other the newspapers printed accounts of the dangers he would encounter, and it was widely predicted that Theodore Roosevelt could never return alive. Members of his family, including his old nurse who cared for him when a child, admonished him of the dangers of his undertaking. With Mrs. Roosevelt he called at the home of his governess at her Grammercy Park home to say good bye. The old woman, with tears in her eyes, kissed him good bye and cautioned him tobe careful. I have read in the papers, said she, such awful things that you will surely catch an incurable fever, of the sleeping sickness that a deadly reptile will bite you that an African insect will sting you to death that the savage men will massacre you that the treacherous leopard will spring upon you without warning that the ferocious lion will surely get you, and Oh To this the undisturbed man of iron merely smiled and bid the constant companion of his childhood days an affectionate farewell. The Hamburg-American Line had made special preparations in fitting up the same suite of rooms on the steamship Hamburg that the Kaiser had occupied on his famous Mediterranean voyage. AS the ship steamed froin her docks at Hoboken a distinguished party, close friends of the Ex-President, crowded the steamer, many of thein following her to Sandy Hook in chartered boats in paying their respects to the man who had ruled over the destinies of this nation for sevcn years. Daily bulletins from the steamer, en route to Naples with its distinguished passenger and his son Kermit, were chronicled in newspapers throughout the world. Other steamships plying the ocean received marconigrams daily telling the passengers about the progress of the voyage. At Gibraltar, the little British possession at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea, a cordial reception was tendered to Col. Roosevelt. While the former President insisted that he was traveliilg in strict i zcog zit a o n d surely not in any sense as a public man, probably the most elaborate and royal recqption was tendered him upon his arrival at Naples that has ever been given any public dignitary or private individual at that port. During his stay inItaly Col. Roosevelt visited the site of Messina destroyed by earthquake, fire and tidal wave on Deccmber 28, 1908, when 200,000 people lost their lives...