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Title: Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals ... found in the course of his travels
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Unger, Frederic William, 1875-
Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Philadelphia? Pa.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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be ready to returnto civilized lands. At the date named he was rapidly nearing a stageafter which only rare specimens were to be shot, the collection forthe Smithsonian having been in great part completed. And civiliza-tion was beginning to lay its grasp again upon the hunter, for we aretold that he had stopped hunting to write a book—another of thefavorite occupations of his leisure hours; one of his relaxations, if wemay call it such. And his request to a correspondent to give thenews shows that his cutting loose from the civilized world was notcomplete, that a touch of homesickness at times disturbed his nerves.Yet with this tidings came to us incidents of thrilling adventure. EOUTE OF MB. KOOSEVELTSAFBICAK TRIP Distances Miles Naples to Aden ----.- 2510Aden to Mombasa - - - - 1598Mombasa to Port Florence 584Port Florence to Entebbe and around the lakeEntebbe to Gondokorogondokoro to khartum - -Khartum to Wadi Halfa -Wadi Kalfa to Assuan - -Assuan to Cairo - - - - 450900560214583
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