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A TOWN OF CONTRASTS. 



IT has been, as I have said, the fashion to 

 speak of Nairobi as an ugly little town. 

 This was probably true when the first corrugated 

 iron houses huddled unrelieved near the railway 

 station. It is not true now. The lower part of 

 town is well planted, and is always picturesque 

 as long as its people are astir. The white popu- 

 lation have built in the wooded hills some charm- 

 ing bungalows surrounded by bright flowers or 

 lost amid the trunks of great trees. From the 

 heights on which is Government House one can, 

 with a glass, watch the game herds feeding 

 on the plains. Two clubs, with the usual 

 games of golf, polo, tennis especially tennis 

 football and cricket ; a weekly hunt, with jack- 

 als instead of foxes ; a bungalow town club on 

 the slope of a hill ; an electric light system ; a 

 race track ; a rifle range ; frilly parasols and the 



