Roosevelt and his companions killed or trapped approximately 11,397 animals. Roosevelt returned to the United States in June 1910 Results Financed by Andrew Carnegie and by his own proposed writings, Roosevelt's party hunted for specimens for the Smithsonian Institution and American Museum of Natural History in New York. The party landed in Mombasa, British East Africa (now Kenya), traveled to the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) before following the Nile to Khartoum in modern Sudan. While on board the Hamburg, Roosevelt encountered Frederick Courteney Selous, a longtime friend who was traveling to his own African safari, traversing many of the same areas. The Hamburg arrived at its destination at Naples, where the party boarded the Admiral, a German-flagged ship selected because it permitted the expedition to load large quantities of ammunition. The party set sail from New York City on the steamer Hamburg on March 23, 1909, shortly after the end of Roosevelt's presidency on March 4. From the Edmund Heller Papers, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Roosevelt also brought his Pigskin Library, a collection of classics bound in pig leather and transported in a single reinforced trunk. 30-03 caliber and, for larger game, a Winchester 1895 rifle in. Roosevelt brought a M1903 Springfield in. Equipment included material for preserving animal hides, including powdered borax, cotton batting, and four tons of salt, as well as a variety of tools, weapons, and other equipment ranging from lanterns to sewing needles. The expedition also included a large number of porters, gunbearers, horse boys, tent men, and askari guards. Army surgeon Stanford University taxidermist Edmund Heller, and mammalologist John Alden Loring and Roosevelt's 19-year-old son Kermit, on a leave of absence from Harvard. Participants on the expedition included Australian sharpshooter Leslie Tarlton three American naturalists, Edgar Alexander Mearns, a retired U.S.
The group was led by the legendary hunter-tracker R. Following the expedition, Roosevelt chronicled it in his book African Game Trails. The trip involved political and social interactions with local leaders and dignitaries. The expedition collected around 11,400 animal specimens, which took Smithsonian naturalists eight years to catalog. Its purpose was to collect specimens for the Smithsonian's new natural history museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History.
It was funded by Andrew Carnegie and sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian–Roosevelt African Expedition was an expedition to tropical Africa in 1909-1911 led by former US President Theodore Roosevelt.
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