THE LURE OF COFFEE 



the old-time "Sportsman" with guns on rack? If for- 

 tunate you may see some hons on the hunt slowly stalk- 

 ing or a cheetah perhaps standing agaze while a stately 

 giraffe is nibbling the top of a thorn bush, and aloof 

 from the rest, the ostriches strut about in dignified de- 

 tachment. Other things too numerous to mention will 

 compel your attention for one brief moment and then 

 pass out of sight. You will be fascinated, spellbound, and 

 perhaps a great longing will come over you to become 

 better acquainted with all this wonderful wild life. You 

 will begin to dream of days of "Safari" — of the camera 

 hunts and the sport that awaits you, when suddenly you 

 are rudely awakened from your day dreams, for the 

 train is jolting into a station and before you have time 

 to realize it you have arrived at Nairobi, the capital city 

 of the country of your dreams. 



But Kenya is not merely a pioneer's hunting ground. 

 It has important towns and district centres. Nairobi, the 

 capital, is a busy commercial centre, with a widespread 

 residential area. The early explorers of East Africa little 

 dreamt of a colony on the Equator where the European 

 could settle and engage in profitable agricultural pur- 

 suits, and at the same time enjoy the ordinary amenities 

 of English country life. Kenya is to-day an established 

 Colonial settlement in the fullest sense of the word. Im- 

 proved means of communication have opened up a ter- 

 ritory potentially wealthy, with a vast native population 

 who are generally amenable to reason, and readily take 

 to the ways of the white men. Side by side with the white 



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