CHAPTER IV 



JOURNEY UP FROM MOMBASA ON THE UGANDA 



RAILWAY 



Views — vegetation — how we stopped for a lion — passing through 

 the game reserve — Nairobi — Kikuyu Shambas — honey 

 barrels. 



The journey up from Mombasa on the Uganda Rail- 

 way is, to the traveller who undertakes it for the 

 first time, one of unceasing interest. What does it 

 matter to him that he arrives at his destination 

 looking like a red Indian, from the red dust which 

 covers him and everything in the carriage ; a dust 

 that refuses to be brushed off. 



Good views of the harbours and peeps of the 

 sea which surround Mombasa are obtained as the 

 train goes inland through Kilindini and over the 

 Shimba Hills on which a fierce tribe, the Zimbas, 

 used to live. 



A land covered with cocoanut palms, papaws, 

 mango trees and bananas, with shambas of maize 

 and manioc and other native vegetables and seeds 

 are seen, and the train has a very steep incline 

 to Mazerus, where our battalion was originally 

 quartered. It is very pretty up to Mazerus ; I saw 



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