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down there ? " said the new-comer. " Oh ! I 

 suppose we don't go as far." 



" Oh ! yes you do : wait and see." And it 

 was with amazing and almost dangerous (so it 

 seemed) rapidity that the train plunged down 

 through the forest passes, swinging round corner 

 after corner, occasionally whisking with a subdued 

 rumble over an iron bridge, all the time whizzing 

 along at break-neck speed, till it drew up, half-way 

 down the escarpment, at the station on the tiny 

 plain, that seemed provided by nature for the 

 buildings, tanks, and platform. 



A shrill whistle is heard and off we go again, 

 ever downward, to the plain three thousand feet 

 below, until on rounding a corner and heading 

 north-west again, Longonot appears towering on 

 high on our left. 



We are now on the floor of the Great Rift 

 Valley, volcanic by nature and also in appearance. 

 Longonot near by, and Suswa some fifteen or 

 twenty miles towards the south-east, form excel- 

 lent examples, being both extinct and therefore 

 explorable, of the turbulence of this part of the 

 globe in bygone times. They are only beaten 

 by Menengai, which is far bigger and not so 

 imposing, further up the valley, overhanging 

 Nakuru station. Barren to their tops, they tower 

 over the surrounding plain, and if one takes 

 the trouble to scale their giddy heights one is 

 rewarded by the sight of a mass of vegetation 



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