ARRIVAL IN EAST AFRICA 



there might be a difficulty about my rejoining him. 

 All the same, it gave me a great feeling of security 

 to know there was a lady kind enough and willing 

 to give me shelter in a land where I knew no one. 



There is a very nice English club in Mombasa, 

 where ladies may go in the evening to see the 

 papers, after they have taken their exercise at the 

 Sports Club in the form of tennis, badminton or 

 other games. Mombasa itself is very hot, but the 

 residents all have their private trolleys, the Govern- 

 ment officials being supplied with one ; these trol- 

 leys run on lines and are pushed by coolies ; there 

 frequently seem to be accidents, but I don't know 

 that people are often hurt, though it is a little agi- 

 tating to the nerves when the trolley is going fast 

 down an incline and a dog walks quietly over the 

 lines. We went over one poor dog, but he was 

 more frightened than hurt, happily. 



We had expected to join my husband's battalion 

 of the King's African Kifles at Mazerus ; but, on ar- 

 riving at Mombasa, we heard the soldiers had been 

 hurriedly moved up to Nairobi a few days previously, 

 owing to the very great amount of sickness among 

 the officers and men. It was against a good deal of 

 local and medical advice that those in authority 

 picked out Mazerus as a suitable ypot for a camp ; but 

 as is often the case, no notice was taken of that ad- 

 vice, the lines were built, and officers' quarters put 

 up, and then it was found out to be an impossible 



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