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Roosevelt Party Sails on African Expedition
New York reports Theodore Roosevelt sails from Hamburg on a hunting and scientific expedition to British East Africa aboard the Hamburg-American liner. He is joined by Maj. Edgar A. Mearus J. Loring Alden and Edmund Heller, with Kermit Roosevelt as official photographer. The party travels via Naples to Mombasa then Nairobi and follows the Nile to Khartoum before returning to Cairo. Roosevelt plans a European tour including Berlin Paris and Oxford, with lectures and honorary degrees anticipated. Both Roosevelt and Kermit will document the journey for Smithsonian and the expedition includes leadership by R. J. Cunninghamham in Africa.
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