. African game trails;. Hunting. ON AN EAST AFRICAN RANCH 47 to her and which she was taming. They all—Sir Alfred, the Hills, every one—behaved as if each was my host and felt it peculiarly incumbent on him to give me a good time; and among these hosts one who did very much for me was Captain Arthur Slatter. I was his guest at Kilimakiu, where he was running an ostrich-farm; he had lost his right hand, yet he was an exceedingly good game shot, both with his light and his heavy rifles. At Kitanga, Sir Al- fred's place, two Boers were working, Messrs. Prinsloo and Klopper. We forgathered, of cou
. African game trails;. Hunting. ON AN EAST AFRICAN RANCH 47 to her and which she was taming. They all—Sir Alfred, the Hills, every one—behaved as if each was my host and felt it peculiarly incumbent on him to give me a good time; and among these hosts one who did very much for me was Captain Arthur Slatter. I was his guest at Kilimakiu, where he was running an ostrich-farm; he had lost his right hand, yet he was an exceedingly good game shot, both with his light and his heavy rifles. At Kitanga, Sir Al- fred's place, two Boers were working, Messrs. Prinsloo and Klopper. We forgathered, of course, as I too was of Dutch ancestry; they were strong, upstanding men, good mechanics, good masons, and Prins- loo spoke English well. I afterward stopped at the farm of Klopper's father, and at the farm of an- other Boer named Loijs; and I met other Boers while out hunting—Erasmus, Botha, Joubert, Meyer. They were descendants of the Voortrek- kers with the same names who led the hard-fighting farmers northward from the Cape seventy years ago; and were kinsfolk of the men who since then have made these names honorably known throughout the world. There must of course be many Boers who have gone backward under the stress of a hard and semi-savage life; just as in our com- munities of the frontier, the backwoods, and the lonely mountains, there are shiftless "poor whites" and ''mean whites," mingled with the sturdy men and women who have laid deep the foundations of our national greatness. But. Sir Alfred with cheetah cub, Botha From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. New York, London, Syndicate publishing company
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