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NEW AFRICA. 



In Black and White. Scattering villages of Wanytka — Generally agricultural, but some- 

 times dangerous — Murder of Thomas London and execution of natives 



Wakamba, Largest Tribe of East Africa. Farmers and herdsmen and only tribe to hold 

 their own against the warlike Masai 



The Warlike Masai. Prowess as lion hunters — Dance in honor of a young man who 

 killed a lion armed only with a spear — Gamblers, like other black men 



The Kikuyu. An unreliable tribe between Nairobi and Mount Kenia 



Naked Tribes at the Head of Victoria Nyanza. Bronze Models of physical perfection 

 — Moral and peaceable people 



The Nandi Tribe. Stole telegraph wire for bracelets and earrings and railroad bolts 

 for spear heads 



Native Kingdom of Uganda. A w^ell organized state under the protection of Great 

 Britain — The Japanese of Africa and their king — A land of cotton, cocoa, coffee, 

 oranges, lemons, pineapples and general fertility — People eager for knowledge... 



White Belt. British, Germans, Americans and Boers — From Nairobi to Port Florence 

 a region of farms and plantations — Nakuru, the chief Boer colony — Old-time foes 

 peaceful farmers 



Great Scenic Section of the Uganda Eailway. Eises over two thousand feet the first 

 twenty-four miles 



Escarpment Station Overlooking Great Rift Valley, 1,500 Feet Below. A railroad 

 pitching over a, cliff — Valley of volcanic hills and craters — A country of escarp- 

 ments, or abrupt land pitches — A slumbering volcano — Old rope lift for travelers 

 to this weird region 



On to Kijabe, Well Named "The Wind." A bleak station — Ride of the Eoosevelt 

 party on the cow catcher from Kikuyu — ^Shoot Colobus monkeys near Kijabe — 

 Eoosevelt visits the African Inland Mission 



Lovely and Mysterious Lake Naivasha Beyond. Bright blossoms on its bosom — In 

 its midst an almost submerged crater — The home of myriad of water fowl — Sur- 

 rounded by big game and great herds of sheep and goats — Its islands great 

 breeding grounds for herons 



Government Breeding Farm for Zebras Near Lake Naivasha. Efforts to solve the 

 horse problem in Africa by producing a zebra hybrid 



Nakuru and Its Charming Lake. A rich grass country surrounding a salt lake — Along 

 the Mau escarpment and over twenty-seven huge viaducts built by American 

 engineers — A country of Boer farmers 



From Fort Ternan to Port Florence. Last section of Uganda Eailroad through a 

 swampy but fertile country 



The Approach to Port Florence and Lake Victoria Nyanza Disappointing. Port 

 Florence, a transfer station from railroad to steamer 



Big Hunting Grounds to the North. Along the Nzoia Eiver and around the southern 

 base of Mount Elgon — A famous lion country — Eiding dowm His Kingship — Herds 

 of giraffe and Jackson's hartbeest — Following a lion into cover 



Across the Lake to Entebbe. British capital of the Uganda Protectorate — A carefully 

 planned city — Charming location and surroundings of "The Chair" — Shores blaz- 

 ing with color — Island gems in the blue lake 



The Sleeping Sickness. Beautiful district densely populated by natives eight years ago 

 now devastated— Laboratory and hospital at Entebbe — Treatment of the disease — 

 Its inoculator, the tsetse fly — Its symptoms and mortality — 'Koch's investigations 



Eoosevelt 's Host and Hostess at Entebbe. .Judge George F. M. Ennis, head of the 

 judicial system of the Uganda Protectorate, and his wife (nee Miss Ethel Kirk- 

 land of Chicago) — Formal reception by Sir Hesketh Bell, the governor — Home 

 entertaining by Mrs. Ennis, Entebbe's only American — Roosevelt's God-speed 

 toward the Nile and civilization 



