MR. ROOSEVELT TELLS OF HIS HUNTING.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12730, 28 February 1910, Page 1

MR. ROOSEVELT TELLS OF HIS HUNTING.

'• Mr. Roosevelt, in tho latest recital of his hunting experiences in East Africa, tolls of an exciting adventure . in which Kermit was chased by a leo- . paid. Mr Roosevelt has been, staying . at the farm of his fellow-countryman Mr. W. W. McMillan, near the junction of tho Nairobi and Rewero rivers, where he lias been tracking impalla— "the most beautiful of all • antelope," he says— and water buck. j A further article appeared in tho ! "Daily Telegraph" relating his ex- ; ploits. | One impalla, wounded in the hips, j dropped after running a little distance. Says Mr. Roosevelt : — "I should not have wondered at all if the animal Jiad failed to get up, but I did not understand why, if iscovetred enough from the shock to be able to get up at all, it had no^ continued to travel, instead of falling after going one hundred yards. Indeed, I am inclined to think that a deer or prong-buck, hit in the same fashion, would have gone off, and would have given a long chase before being overtaken.

"1 three times saw African antelopes succumb to wounds quicker than the average northern animal .vould. have succumbed to the wound. One was this impalla. Another was the cow eland I first shot; tier hind leg was broken high up, and th© wound, though criiypJing, was not such as would iiavo prevented a -noose or wapiti from hobbling away ou three legs; yet, in spite of hard struggles, the eland was wholly unioJe to regain her feet. ! The hunter shot a python, coiled up in the long grass under a small .ice. "1 could not see it distinctly, and using a solid bullet, I just missed •Mio back bone, the bullet going -liiough the body about its middle, unmediately tho snake lashed at me nth open jaws, and then, uncoiling, •aino rapidly in our direction. Ido ■iot think it was charging; I think t was merely trying to escape. But •iidd n-ho was utterly unmoved by :on, leopard, or rhino, evidently held -iiis snake in respect, and yelled to lie to get out of the way. Accord"gly, 1 jumped back a few feet, and ;he snake came over the ground •vhere I had stood ; its evil genius :hen made it halt for a moment and • aise its head to a height of perhaps • hre© feet, and I killed it by a shot iirough the neck." > Describing a wounded leopard's -iard fight for life, Mr. Roosevelt .rites : — "Tho animal did not wait to be :nven. Without any warning out ho ame and charged straight "at Kormt, who stopped him when he was •ub six yards off with a bullet n the ore-part of the body; the leopard -iirned, and as he galloped back Kernifc. hit him again, crippling him in .he hips.