For instance, in his most publicized
safari to East Africa, which lasted between
April 1909 and March 1910, then US President
Theodore Roosevelt travelled with over 200 trackers,
skinners, porters and gun bearers. 4 Roosevelt
shot, preserved and shipped to Washington DC over
3000 specimen of African game. Also, a retired
British military officer and a member of the British
aristocracy, Peter Meinertzhagen, has recounted in
his safari memoirs how, during a single hunting
expedition in Kenya, he shot and killed several
hundred