42 THE EASTERN PROVINCE 



valleyf> of ^lau you are in tlie presence of an nnintentioned Euro}iean 

 colony, some of which no doulit will melt away with the completion of 

 the railway, but much of which must be the nucleus of the great white 

 colony one may hope to see established on the only land really fitted for its 

 development in Equatorial Africa. The Kavirondo, alas! are wearing trousers 

 and "sweaters"; the sacred iliises have left Kisumu, for its swamps are 

 drained. Piers and wharves, hotels and residences in corrugated iron, are 

 springing up at Port Florence, destined, no doubt, to be a great emporium 

 of trade on the Victoria Nyanza. The dirty brown waters of Ka\'irondo 

 Bay, a gulf of the great lake that was only pro[)erly' mapped last year, 

 are now daily navigated by sailing boats and steamers. Before long this 

 chapter on the Ea>tern Province will only possess the value of describing 

 an aspect which in many details has ceased for ever to exist. 



