4000 MILES TRAIL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 443, 17 December 1908, Page 4

4000 MILES TRAIL.

Mr Roosevelt’s plan to kill African Game. President Roosevelt’s hunting trip in Africa next year will be almost entirely in British territory, Mr Roosevelt will will leave for Africa im March next, a fortnight after the end of the Presidential term, and will be away for at least a year. He will disembark at Morn oassa, and take the railway 250 miles into the interior, where he will join his caravan and begin the hunt. He will slowly work his way towards Take Victoria, making wide sweeps on both sides of the railway, and then enter the Uganda plateau, where he expects to find splendid shooting. After spending sometime there, the expedition will start northward from the headwaters of the Nile, following the river to Khartoum. The President’s only companions will be his son Kermit, who has been appointed official photographer to the expedition, and two experts of the National Museum, who will preserve for shipment the specimens which fall to the the President’s gun. The British Government will assign the best hunting guides, and make every other possible preparation to ensure a great success. The route to be covered is 4000 miles long.