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S P O R T I N G C L A S S I C S 3 9 a costly and premature end to his great African safari. TR looked in horror as a raging fire roared toward him and his camp. Flames leapt high in the air as the fire raced through the tall, dry grass. Lions could be heard in the distance roaring their disapproval and flocks of birds flew frantically in all directions as they escaped the approaching flames. I t was a terrifying sight that greeted Theodore Roosevelt as he stepped from his tent that morning in 1910, and it was something that could have brought egends of the Hunt L The President was coming to the end of his African safari and had made camp in the Lado Enclave, a small strip of land in the former Belgian Congo, south of what is now southeast Sudan and northwest Uganda. In December 1909 King Leopold of Belgium died, which left this Belgian outpost without a governor. As a result, it became a John Seerey-Lester FIRE IN THE LADO A raging wildfire threatens to bring President Roosevelt's safari to a quick and untimely end.