The
muxmux sat on its great hind legs,
And looked o’er the top of the trees;
The
fapergub turned a quick somersault
When he heard the oomagark sneeze.
The
rammerjeck piked for the jungle,
Discarding all superfluous weight;
And
the rikirik flew, and the pijit too,
Fifty leagues from the Congo state.
The
shovelho dug deep down in the ground,
To get far out of harm’s way;
The
wigglemitt climbed to the topmost tree,
And hid himself night and day.
The
fibbagab swam far out to sea,
And dovce for the depths below;
And
the fizziwuck shook with hunted look,
While the rinyi died of woe.
A
reign of terror swept jungleland,
The sun refused to come out;
The
limbs of the trees all shook with fear,
And the Kaffir king had the gout.
And
the glabberackerfilliloo,
When he saw the guns and shoes,
Just
fell with a jar at the feet of T.R.,
And murmered: “O, what’s the use!”
April
22, ‘09
The Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition was an expedition to Africa (in 1909) led by Theodore Roosevelt and outfitted by the Smithsonian Institution. Its purpose was to collect specimens for the Smithsonian's new Natural History museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History. The expedition collected around 11,400 animal specimens which took Smithsonian naturalists eight years to catalog. (That’s 11,400 animals killed)
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