ILLUSTRATIONS 



FACING PAGE 



The lazy Boabab Tree 76 



In the native quarter of Mombasa ... 77 



Swahili women at Mombasa 86 



The slope fell gently away through a coconut 



grove 87 



The camp beneath the mangoes .... 87 



The Sable 90 



"From it led a narrow path through the 



thicket" 91 



"The hotel manager came forward with the 

 offer of a gasoline launch, which we gladly 



accepted " .92 



"Then suddenly we found ourselves in a story- 

 book, tropical paradise" 93 



Masai women at a station of the Uganda Rail- 

 road 116 



Train on the Uganda Railway 116 



"Inside a fence before the low, stone-built, 



wide-verandahed hotel" 117 



" Savages from the jungle untouched by civili- 

 zation wander the streets unabashed" 124 

 Convicts marching into Nairobi in charge of 



Soudanese . % I2 S 



"But the native is the joy, and the never- 

 ceasing delight" I2 ^ 



In the bazaar at Nairobi. Kikuyus bargaining 128 



