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Roosevelt Safari Plans and the Cunninghame Lead Group
The piece details Roosevelt’s Africa safari with guides led by R. J. Cunninghame, the Somali staff, and the Nyano hosts, highlighting discipline, training, and risks. It praises Cunninghame as the top safari leader, contrasts Somali and Swahili porters, and notes Roosevelt’s planned route through East Africa with McMillan’s backing and a seven-white-man party headed by Roosevelt, Selous, and Smithsonian reps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Judd
Theodore Roosevelt
Harry Johnston
F. C. Selous
Central Africa
Mr. Roosevelt
Africa
McMillan
Abyssinia
Blue Nile
Sabat
Somaliland
Roosevelt
Safari
R. J. Cunninghame
Nairobi
Cunninghame
Mr. McMillan
M. Cunninghame
F.C. Selous
White House
Afri
M Velt
Mombasa
Kermit
F.C. Sel
Naples
Smithsonian Institution
Ineir