THROUGH JUBALAND 



TO THE 



LORIAN SWAMP 



CHAPTER I 



BRITISH EAST AFRICA 



British East Africa is inevitably associated in 

 the minds of most people with the Uganda Railway. 

 The words conjure up a picture of what has been 

 advertised as "Nature's Zoo" — of lions, rhinoceros 

 and giraffes wandering across the track which winds 

 its way through a fertile and wonderful country from 

 the coast up to the highlands, the so-called " health 

 resort of British East Africa," where rich sportsmen 

 pass a few hurried weeks during the winter, shooting 

 big game within comfortable reach of Nairobi. Even 

 in a recent series of special articles on the country, 

 which appeared in the Times, no attention was paid 

 to any other part of the Protectorate than that which 

 borders on the railway. Yet if the reader will but 

 glance at a map, he will see that in size that is but 

 an insignificant portion of British East Africa. Far 

 away from Nairobi, beyond the snowy heights of 

 Kenya, lies a land still imperfectly known, stretching 

 away to Abyssinia in the north and to the Juba River 

 in the east. There are still fully 100,000 square 



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