Heller and Two Native Skinners at Work on a Roosevelt Specimen

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Copyright, 1910, by Warrington Dawson. Heller and Two Native Skinners at Work on a Roosevelt Specimen.

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ROOSEVELT IN AFRICA A Series of 16 Cards Illustrating Roosevelt's Hunting Trip. 25 cents. The Cromwell Co., 434 Lafayette St., New York. 45- ALL 16 CARDS AT WORK ON A SPECIMEN.- Edmund Heller, the naturalist, found great difficulty in training natives to help him in the skinning of the specimens, un- til he noticed that while the natives of the Swahili tribe liked only rice, the Kikuyus only beans, the Masai only milk mixed with blood, the Wakamba tribe liked raw meat, which they tore with filed teeth. He therefore concentrated his attention on Wakamba, since they seemed predisposed by their tribal customs to have an interest in animals, and he succeeded in making excellent skinners of several.