XXXIII. 

 OVER THE LIKIPIA ESCARPMENT. 



OWING to an outbreak of bubonic plague, and 

 consequent quarantine, we had recruited 

 our men outside Nairobi, and had sent them, in 

 charge of C., to a little station up the line. 



Billy and I saw to the loading of our equip- 

 ment on the train, and at two o'clock, in solitary 

 state, set forth. Our only attendants were Mo- 

 hammed and Memba Sasa, who had been fumi- 

 gated and inoculated and generally Red-Crossed 

 for the purpose. 



The little narrow-gauge train doubled and 

 twisted in its climb up the range overlooking 

 Nairobi and the Athi Plains. Fields of corn 

 grew so tall as partially to conceal villages of 

 round, grass-thatched huts with conical roofs ; 

 we looked down into deep ravines where grew 

 the broad-leaved bananas ; the steep hillsides 

 had all been carefully cultivated. Savages lean- 



