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, strange peoples and (14747635661)

HUNTING THE LIONS
Identifier: rooseveltsafrica00ungerfr (find matches)
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, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Unger, Frederic William, b. 1875
Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Philadelphia?, PA.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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terror-stricken from the camp by adopting this peculiarmethod of attack. The Story of King Humberts Lion.—The gardens attachedto the Quirinal Palace, the present residence of the king and queenof Italy, are of a magical beauty. They are enclosed in high, close-cut hedges, and at every two or three steps you come upon somedelightful surprise. Now a fountain, now a fernery, now an aviary,now a smooth lawn clothed with brilliant flower beds, now a groveof ancient oak trees wnth antique statues peeping from their myste-rious depths, now an exotic shrubbery, and. at last, most wonderful THE LION AND OTHER BEASTS OF PREY 219 suprise of all, hidden amidst azaleas, you find a cottage with ironbars in front, behind which paces a solitary lion. This is Goma, a present from the African king, Menelik, to hisbrother king, Humbert of Italy. He is a young lion, about threeyears old, very tall and handsome, but with a mane not yet fullygrown, and was brought to Italy as a cub, so that he has never
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HUNTING THE LIONS known liberty or companionship. He came with an Abyssinianattendant, who shortly returned to his native land, and for whom isnow substituted an Italian peasant girl. vShe keeps his parlor andbedroom clean, shutting him by an iron gate into the one or theother the while, for no one has ventured into his cage during hispresence there, except once a stable boy, who put some fresh strawunder him when he was ill, and had no reason to repent it, for Goma 220 THE LION AND OTHER BEASTS OF PREY is of a most amiable and affectionate disposition. In default of anycompanion of his own kind he takes to human beings, roaring whenhis attendant goes away to fetch his meat, of which he consumesabout twenty pounds daily. A hedgehog was once put into his cageto beguile his loneliness, but it pricked his nose, and he, therefore,very naturally objected to it. Then a tortoise was tried, and thisexperiment succeeded better. He played with it as a kitten playswith a ball, turning it over an