“The River of Doubt”
At Gondokoro, Uganda, Roosevelt ended his African hunts. He came
through his many perilous situations unharmed. Kermit was also in the
best of health. The latter was praised by Scout Cunninghame as one of
the best shots and most daring hunters he had ever seen.
The Colonel on his journey back to civilization, visited first the
Congo Free State, where the Belgian officers in charge of that colony
gave him a warm welcome.
The journey was then continued by way of the Nile to Khartum, where the
first newspaper men Roosevelt had seen for months raced up the Nile to
greet him. Here Mrs. Roosevelt and her daughter met Kermit and him,
and there was an affectionate family reunion. The party then traveled
through Egypt.
In a speech at Cairo the Colonel referred jokingly to Wall Street’s
attitude toward him by saying that when he left America to hunt in
Africa “Wall Street expected every lion to do its duty.”
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