ILLUSTRATIONS 



Trophy Room of the author . . Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



"Camels laden with stone and in convoy of 



white-clad figures" 22 



The control station 23 



"Innumerable rowboats swarmed down, filled 

 with eager salesmen of curios and ostrich 



plumes " 26 



Dhow in the Red Sea 27 



Another View of the Trophy Room ... 42 

 "We waited patiently to see the camels slung 



aboard by the crane" 43 



Vasco da Gama Street, the principal thorough- 

 fare of Mombaso 60 



The trolley car of Mombaso 60 



In the ivory market of Mombasa ... 61 



The labour of Africa is carried forward by song 61 



Old Portuguese fort at Mombasa .... 68 



In the Arab quarter of Mombasa. ... 68 



In the Swahili quarter of Mombasa ... 69 

 The entire water supply of Mombasa is drawn 



from numberless picturesque wells . . 69 

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